Foreshadowing the Reformation: Art and Religion in the 15th Century Burgundian Netherlands

ISBN-13: 9781138481350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 164 str.

Christopher Herbert

Opis

If we are to fully understand and appreciate the late Medieval and Renaissance paintings of great Northern European artists, we need to investigate the religious and spiritual beliefs and practices of the time. It has been quite fashionable over recent decades largely to ignore the contemporary religious context and to concentrate instead on the part played by economics in the creation of works of art. This book argues that there was a symbiotic relationship between those artistic and spiritual worlds and that by bringing the insights from those worlds together we can get a much richer appreciation of medieval life.

Recenzje

"...his combination of solid art-historical scholarship, theological insights and an enviable ability to ‘read’ a painting in both detail and depth is very rewarding indeed.(...) This excellent book must also be commended as an invaluable, and portable, accessory to viewing such artworks in situ."

- Graham Howes, Trinity Hall, Cambridge in Theology journal, issue 120.3 (May/June) 2017

O autorze

Christopher Herbert has a life-long interest in the field of art history and has also written numbers of books in the area of spirituality. He was Bishop of St Albans until his retirement in 2009. He has an M.Phil and a Ph.D. in the field of Art History from the University of Leicester, plus honorary doctorates from the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Bedfordshire.