Arts, Portraits and Representation in the Reformation Era

Proceedings of the Fourth Reformation Research Consortium Conference

Contributions by William Dyrness Contributions by Patrizio Foresta Contributions by Joanna Kazmierczak Contributions by Rainer Kobe Contributions by Anna Michalska Contributions by Volkmar Ortmann Contributions by Herman A. Speelman Contributions by Zsombor Tóth Contributions by Aurelia Zdunczyk Contributions by Maria Lucia Weigel Contributions by Insa Christiane Hennen Contributions by Sibylla Goegebuer Contributions by Kathrin Ellwardt Contributions by Silvia Canalda Llobet Contributions by Cristina Fontcuberta i Famadas Contributions by Magdalena Mielnik Contributions by Fabrizio Mandreoli Contributions by Tamara Dominici Contributions by Justyna Chodasewicz Contributions by Marta Malkus Contributions by Fabio Todesco Contributions by Aleksandra Jasniewicz Edited by Patrizio Foresta Edited by Federica Meloni Associate editor Christopher B. Brown Associate editor Günter Frank Associate editor Bruce Gordon Associate editor Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer Associate editor Tarald Rasmussen Associate editor Violet Soen Associate editor Zsombor Tóth Associate editor Günther Wassilowsky Associate editor Siegrid Westphal

Book cover: Arts, Portraits and Representation in the Reformation Era

Extent: 496 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Art & Art History, Religious Studies

Series: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2019)

ISBN: 9783525552490

6.34 x 9.25 inches

Price: $200.00

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The visual intelligibility of the European Reformation in figurative arts, history and theology.


The role played by artistic, literary, historical and theological representations in the establishment of the European Reformation has attracted scholarly attention over the years. While they were generally regarded as a significant means of conveying the evangelical message, particularly in a society with a low average literacy rate, this scholarly consensus was then seriously challenged by objecting that their meaning must have remained opaque to those who couldn’t read and interpret their sometimes multilayered imagery and their verbal and figurative messages. This volume, which publishes some of the papers delivered at the Fourth Reformation Research Consortium Conference held in Bologna, May 15th-17th, 2014, is an attempt to examine the visual intelligibility of the European Reformation by a comparative, multiconfessional and multidisciplinary analysis of examples taken from both the Catholic and the Protestant world in the Early Modern and Modern Era, with particular reference to the figurative arts, but also to history and theology. All the case studies included here examine their peculiar subjects with regard to their religious and artistic contexts, in order to understand their historical significance in a new fashion, combining approaches from political history, history of arts, historiography, anthropology, philosophy and theology. Thus, the volume offers a very rich outline of how visual culture and representation through arts was embodied in very different cultural portraits and images.

  • Contributions by William Dyrness
  • Contributions by Patrizio Foresta
  • Contributions by Joanna Kazmierczak
  • Contributions by Rainer Kobe
  • Contributions by Anna Michalska
  • Contributions by Volkmar Ortmann
  • Contributions by Herman A. Speelman
  • Contributions by Zsombor Tóth
  • Contributions by Aurelia Zdunczyk
  • Contributions by Maria Lucia Weigel
  • Contributions by Insa Christiane Hennen
  • Contributions by Sibylla Goegebuer
  • Contributions by Kathrin Ellwardt
  • Contributions by Silvia Canalda Llobet
  • Contributions by Cristina Fontcuberta i Famadas
  • Contributions by Magdalena Mielnik
  • Contributions by Fabrizio Mandreoli
  • Contributions by Tamara Dominici
  • Contributions by Justyna Chodasewicz
  • Contributions by Marta Malkus
  • Contributions by Fabio Todesco
  • Contributions by Aleksandra Jasniewicz
  • Edited by Patrizio Foresta
  • Edited by Federica Meloni
  • Associate editor Christopher B. Brown
  • Associate editor Günter Frank
  • Associate editor Bruce Gordon
  • Associate editor Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer
  • Associate editor Tarald Rasmussen
  • Associate editor Violet Soen
  • Associate editor Zsombor Tóth
  • Associate editor Günther Wassilowsky
  • Associate editor Siegrid Westphal