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Whereas entire libraries discuss the religious and political history of the sixteenth century in Northern Europe, focused on the Reformation and the rise of nation-states, Larry Silver uniquely traces the dramatic, even traumatic changes of the Reformation era discernible in the visual arts, especially paintings and the new medium of prints. Among the subjects and themes he explores are the destruction of church images, witchcraft, reactions to new voyages of exploration, and issues of vision itself in an age when moral codes and the nature of sin and death were being re-examined.
Price: $177.00
Pages: 396
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History
Publication Date:
26 June 2023
ISBN: 9789004504295
Format: Hardcover
This is a thoughtful and important book, the distillation of a lifetime of study and reflection. […] The clarity of [Larry Silver’s] writing, his ability to essentialize, and his vivid choices of artistic examples are certain to make his discussions accessible to the interested public and students alike.
Dan Ewing, Barry University. In: Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, April 2024.
“Silver created a fascinating new narrative, offering a fresh reading of northern European art from Dürer to Callot, which can inform both the well-informed scholar as well as the student unfamiliar to the period.”
Oliver Kik, in: Bulletin de l’Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique / Bulletin van het Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium, Vol. 39 (2024).
Dan Ewing, Barry University. In: Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, April 2024.
“Silver created a fascinating new narrative, offering a fresh reading of northern European art from Dürer to Callot, which can inform both the well-informed scholar as well as the student unfamiliar to the period.”
Oliver Kik, in: Bulletin de l’Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique / Bulletin van het Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium, Vol. 39 (2024).
Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, emeritus, at the University of Pennyslvania, also taught at Berkeley and Northwestern. He served as President of the College Art Association and the Historians of Netherlandish Art, and is the author of numerous books and articles about early modern visual culture, including monographs on Bosch, Bruegel, and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.