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The Idol in the Age of Art - Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Idol in the Age of Art - Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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After 1500, as Catholic Europe fragmented into warring sects,
evidence of a pagan past came newly into view, and travelers to
distant places encountered deeply unfamiliar visual cultures, it
became ever more pressing to distinguish between the sacred image
and its opposite, the 'idol'. Historians and philosophers have long
attended to Reformation charges of idolatry - the premise for
image-breaking - but only very recently have scholars begun to
consider the ways that the idol occasioned the making no less than
the destruction. The present book focuses on how idols and ideas
about them matter for the history of early modern objects produced
around the globe, especially those created in the context of an
exchange or confrontation between an 'us' and a 'them'. Ranging
widely within the early modern period, the volume contributes to
the project of globalizing the study of European art, bringing the
continent's commercial, colonial, antiquarian, and religious
histories into dialogue. Its studies of crosses, statues on
columns, wax ex-votos, ivories, prints, maps, manuscripts,
fountains, banners, and New World gold all frame Western 'art'
simultaneously as an idea and as a collection of real things,
arguing that it was through the idol that object-makers and writers
came to terms with what it was that art should be, and do.
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