Lucas Cranach the Elder - Art and Devotion of the German Reformation

Informationen zum Autor Bonnie J. Noble received her B.A. in the history and literature of Religion from Northwestern University, her M.A. in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University. She teaches Art History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Klappentext This book presents Cranach's Reformation painting to a broader audience and explains the pictorial strategies Cranach devised to clarify and interpret Lutheran thought. For specialists in Reformation history, this study offers an interpretation of Cranach's art as an agent of religious change. For historians and students of Renaissance art, this study explores the defining work of a major sixteenth-century artist. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 1. Law and Gospel and the Strategies of Pictorial Rhetoric Chapter 2 2. The Schneeberg Altarpiece and the Structure of Worship Chapter 3 3. The Wittenberg Altarpiece: Communal Devotion and Identity Chapter 4 4. Holy Visions and Pious Testimony: Weimar Altarpiece Chapter 5 5. Public Worship to Private Devotion: Cranach's Reformation Madonna Panels

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bonnie Noble, Noble Bonnie
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2009
• EAN: 9780761843375
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-4337-5
• Pagine: 227
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; History of Art, Art treatments & subjects, ART / Movements / Renaissance