Art and Religion in Eighteenth Century Europe

Informationen zum Autor Nigel Aston is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Religious Change in Europe 1650-1914 (1997) and Religion and Revolution in France 1780-1804 (2000). Klappentext Examines changing attitudes to religious art from the Reformation and through the Enlightenment. Zusammenfassung Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed monumental upheavals in both the Catholic and Protestant faiths and the repercussions rippled down to the churches' religious art forms. This study chronicles the intertwining of cultural and institutional turmoil during this pivotal century.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Aston
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2009
• EAN: 9781861893772
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-377-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history