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Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Histories of Vision
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After a century of Rationalist scepticism and political upheaval,
the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the
forces of secularization and the crusaders of a Christian revival.
From this battlefield arose an art movement that would become the
torchbearer of a new religious art: Nazarenism. From its inception
in the Lukasbund of 1809, this art was controversial. It
nonetheless succeeded in becoming a lingua franca in religious
circles throughout Europe, America, and the world at large. This is
the first major study of the evolution, structure, and conceptual
complexity of this archetypically nineteenth-century language of
belief. The Nazarene quest for a modern religious idiom evolved
around a return to pre-modern forms of biblical exegesis and the
adaptation of traditional systems of iconography. Reflecting the
era's historicist sensibility as much as the general revival of
orthodoxy in the various Christian denominations, the Nazarenes
responded with great acumen to pressing contemporary concerns.
Consequently, the artists did not simply revive Christian
iconography, but rather reconceptualized what it could do and say.
This creativity and flexibility enabled them to intervene
forcefully in key debates of post-revolutionary European society:
the function of eroticism in a Christian life, the role of women
and the social question, devotional practice and the nature of the
Church, childhood education and bible study, and the burning issue
of anti-Judaism and modern anti-Semitism. What makes Nazarene art
essentially Romantic is the meditation on the conditions of
art-making inscribed into their appropriation and reinvention of
artistic tradition. Far from being a reactionary move, this
self-reflexivity expresses the modernity of Nazarene art. This
study explores Nazarenism in a series of detailed excavations of
central works in the Nazarene corpus produced between 1808 and the
1860s. The result is a book about the possibility of religious
meaning in modern art. It will reinvigorate scholarship in the
fields of nineteenth-century art, romanticism, and religion and the
arts, and restore the Nazarene artists to their rightful place at
the forefront of romantic art history.
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