To Proclaim, to Instruct and to Discipline
The Visuality of Texts in Calvinist Churches in the Dutch Republic
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2024
456 pages
978-3-7954-3996-5 (ISBN)
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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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Jacolien Wubs
To Proclaim, to Instruct and to Discipline
The Visuality of Texts in Calvinist Churches in the Dutch Republic
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12/2024
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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.
