FAH279H5 Lecture 3: FAH279-week3
Document Summary
Market for new up-to-date maps of rome: taking rome home with them, people of quality, regardless of religion, hope to convert protestants anyway. Italian religious art; art for the papacy: christ crowned with thorns, the pope crowned , anti-papal propaganda, john calvin believed images had no places in churches, ex. Church in assendelft, 1640, pieter saenredam: stripped, bare church, dutch protestant church, others, like martin luther, believed they had a place but it was strictly didactic, not conduits for the divine. Iconoclasm; rejection and sometimes physical destruction of images: catholic response: maintained importance and efficacy of religious images, ex. cult statues visited during pilgrimages, church of the beautiful virgin in regensburg 1520, michael. Instrumentality: works of art are instruments for the faith: ex. Detail from michelangelo"s the last judgement : criticized for almost fully nude figures and crowded composition, but churches still wanted their art to be exciting, therefore artists often went past limits of what is proper .
