In the beginning was the image
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  alternate name: Reformation
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  alternate name: Christianity and art--History
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  alternate name: Arts in the Bible--History
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  alternate name: Christianity and art
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  alternate name: Renaissance
abstract: "This pioneering study focuses on the decisive contributions by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Hans Holbein the Younger to the popular promotion of the printed Bible and, beyond that, to the evangelical impulses that transformed ecclesiastical art. The Renaissance, always recognized as a time of artistic and theological foment for Christianity, also witnessed a visual re-formation of the Bible. Material culture played its part since the printing press allowed proliferation of biblical images and texts on a previously unimaginable scale. Contrary to commonly accepted claims that the Reformation resulted in the atrophy of art, artists offered richly visual experiences for the biblical culture of the new Protestant churches. This book further explicitly explores the paradox of the Bible's cultural status. The Bible, authority for Christian culture, shattered the unity of Christianity with its divergent editions and translations. Reformation art required new approaches to accommodate confessional and textual diversity. Rulers, theologians, and artists created new Bibles as foundations for transformative socio-political movements. In Price's richly nuanced study, a new understanding emerges of how Dürer, Cranach, and Holbein invented biblical iconographies as they promoted the relationship of biblicism to faith and political authority"--
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31092403
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: In the Beginning Was the Image: Art and the Renaissance of the Bible -- The Artist as Biblical Humanist -- The Artist as Reformer -- Dürer's Reformation: Art and Politics of Biblicism -- Word Made Image: Cranach's Biblical Iconography -- Holbein and the Art of the Heterogeneous Bible -- Epilogue: “For the God-Fearing and the Art-Loving”.
temporal coverage: 1500-1699
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301316491
type: CreativeWork

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