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OverviewIn describing the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, Johan Huizinga said, Paintings could be found everywhere . . . everywhere except in churches. Although pictures were ubiquitous in the Dutch world, the official religion expressed a fundamental distrust of visual imagery. Indeed, Calvinism and visual culture were both central modes of self-understanding in Dutch society. Investigating this paradox, The Wake of Iconoclasm takes as its main subject the numerous paintings of austere Calvinist church interiors that proliferated in the seventeenth century. Painstakingly crafted and highly naturalistic images of interiors, these peculiar paintings show spaces that were purged of visual imagery during and after the iconoclast riots of the sixteenth century. In essence, they depict the interface of the histories of art and religion. Angela Vanhaelen argues that the main function of this imagery was to stimulate debate about the transformed role of art in relation to the religious and political upheavals of the Reformation and the Dutch Revolt. Paintings of the emptied churches allowed their beholders to grapple with the significant public influence of Calvinism-especially its suppression of past cultural traditions and the new conditions of possibility it created for the visual arts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Angela Vanhaelen (Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.134kg ISBN: 9780271050614ISBN 10: 0271050616 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 11 May 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews<p> A creative and fresh approach to the study of seventeenth-century Dutch architectural paintings of church interiors. <p>--Prof. dr. Mia M. Mochizuki, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University, and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley Author InformationAngela Vanhaelen is Associate Professor of Art History at McGill University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |