German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, C. 1520-1580: Art in an Age of Uncertainty

by Jeffrey Chipps Smith

During the Reformation, statues and carvings of saints, once commonly revered as aids to salvation, were condemned by increasing numbers of Protestants as fearsome idols. Moral doubts coupled with widespread acts of iconoclasm meant potential ruin for hundreds of German sculptors whose economic livelihood depended traditionally on church commissions. Focusing on how sculptors adjusted to this cultural tumult, Jeffrey Chipps Smith offers the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691032378
• ISBN13: 9780691032375
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 5.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 9.5" x 11.0"