
To Proclaim, to Instruct and to Discipline
The Visuality of Texts in Calvinist Churches in the Dutch Republic
Jacolien Wubs(Author)
Schnell & Steiner (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2024
Book
Hardback
456 pages
978-3-7954-3829-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book shows how, after iconoclasm in Dutch Calvinist churches, text decoration evolved into an innovative form of visual culture, and was used to transform church spaces to accommodate Reformed worship. Beyond evident and major changes a story of continuity unfolds, witnessed by the pre-Reformation roots of designs and spatial arrangements of texts displayed in churches. The present study is based on a comprehensive inventory of text panels and text paintings installed in churches throughout the Dutch provinces between ca. 1575 and 1800. A wider exploration around the North Sea reveals continued and renewed connections alongside the rupture brought about by the Reformation: commonly used text decoration took different forms according to the liturgical and dogmatic requirements of the Church of England, Danish-Norwegian Lutheranism, and both the Lutheran and Calvinist traditions in north-western Germany.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
248 farbige Abbildungen, 62 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
Ill'd throughout in colour
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 181 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1564 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7954-3829-6 (9783795438296)
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Jacolien Wubs
To Proclaim, to Instruct and to Discipline
The Visuality of Texts in Calvinist Churches in the Dutch Republic
E-Book
12/2024
1st Edition
Schnell & Steiner
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Person
This book is the result of the author's PhD research in Art history, completed at the University of Groningen in 2021. The project was partly carried out at the church art department of the University Museum of Bergen, Norway.
Content
https://download.schnell-und-steiner.de/ihv/9783795438296_inhaltsverzeichnis.pdf