Ikonologie der christlichen Kunst

Band 3: Bildkunst der Neuzeit

By (author) Hans Georg Thümmel

Book cover: Ikonologie der christlichen Kunst

Extent: 379 pages

Publisher: Brill | Schöningh

Subjects: Art & Art History, Religious Studies

Series: Ikonologie der christlichen Kunst

Series volume number: 3

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(June 2021)

ISBN: 9783506780461

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $147.00

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The modern era is characterized, on the one hand, by the Reformation, as a result of which several ecclesiastical entities emerged that showed a different attitude towards Christian art. On the other hand, by the so-called secularization, which finally led art to an objectlessness that hardly allowed Christian statements. The Reformation produced polemics and confessional images; the Counter-Reformation responded above all with an intensified cult of Mary and her Assumption into heaven.

Hans Georg Thümmel war Professor für Kirchengeschichte, Christliche Archäologie und Geschichte der kirchlichen Kunst in Greifswald. Seit 1990 ist er Mitglied der Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt sowie der Historischen Kommission für Pommern. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Patristik, ältere und mittelalterliche Kirchengeschichte, ostkirchliche Bilderlehre sowie die Ikonologie der christlichen Kunst.

  • By (author) Hans Georg Thümmel