Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century

Larry Silver (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-50429-5 (ISBN)

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Dramatic changes during the Reformation era in Northern Europe, such as witchcraft and new global discoveries, are examined through visual culture, both prints and paintings.

Whereas entire libraries discuss the religious and political history of the sixteenth century in Northern Europe, focused on the Reformation and the rise of nation-states, Larry Silver uniquely traces the dramatic, even traumatic changes of the Reformation era discernible in the visual arts, especially paintings and the new medium of prints. Among the subjects and themes he explores are the destruction of church images, witchcraft, reactions to new voyages of exploration, and issues of vision itself in an age when moral codes and the nature of sin and death were being re-examined.

Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, emeritus, at the University of Pennyslvania, also taught at Berkeley and Northwestern. He served as President of the College Art Association and the Historians of Netherlandish Art, and is the author of numerous books and articles about early modern visual culture, including monographs on Bosch, Bruegel, and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Prologue

1 The Waning of the Renaissance

1 Holbein’s The Ambassadors

2 Dürer’s Melancholy

2 The Harbinger: Bosch

1 Bosch and Genre

3 Visual Conflicts of Creeds

1 Propaganda

2 Parodies

3 Portraits

4 Paradigms Regained

5 Idol Hands: Iconophobia

4 The Dark Side: Devil and Death

1 Monsters and Demons

2 Witches in Germany

3 Woman, Sin, and Death

4 Netherlandish Witchcraft

5 Eves of Destruction: Wars

1 Soldiers’ Death

2 German Conflicts

3 Dutch Revolt

4 French Wars of Religion

6 East is East: Images of the Turkish Nemesis

1 Pioneering Images

2 Dürer and Turks

3 Dutch Perspectives

4 Melchior Lorck in Istanbul

5 Fin-de-Siècle Danube Conflict

7 New Worlds

1 The Americas

2 Collecting: American Artifacts and Animals

3 India Ink

4 Symbolic Images of the Wider World

8 Foolish Mortals

1 Preface

9 Peter Bruegel’s Vision Problems

Concluding Observations: Contradictions and Discrepancies

1 Visual Dilemmas

2 Intellectual Discontents

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; 66
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 245 mm
Gewicht	956 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10	90-04-50429-X / 900450429X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-50429-5 / 9789004504295
Zustand	Neuware