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Foreshadowing the Reformation - Art and Religion in the 15th Century Burgundian Netherlands (Paperback)
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Foreshadowing the Reformation - Art and Religion in the 15th Century Burgundian Netherlands (Paperback)
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Foreshadowing the Reformation argues that paintings are the history
of ideas in visual form. It follows, therefore, that if we are to
fully understand and appreciate the late Medieval and Renaissance
paintings of great Northern European artists such as Jan van Eyck
and Rogier van der Weyden, we need to investigate the religious and
spiritual beliefs and practices of the time. It has been quite
fashionable in Medieval and Renaissance Art History over recent
decades largely to ignore the contemporary religious context and to
concentrate instead on the part played by economics in the creation
of works of art. Much has been made, for example, of the costs of
materials, the role of markets, international trade and the
commissioning process-all of which are undoubtedly important. This
book looks to redress this balance through its description and
analysis of religious and spiritual ideas, and by offering new,
exciting and radical insights about some of the paintings,
altarpieces and sculptures that were created. This book argues that
there was a symbiotic relationship between those artistic and
spiritual worlds and that by bringing the insights from those
worlds together we can get a much richer appreciation of medieval
life.
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