Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe

by John Dillenberger

John Dillenberger has written the first comprehensive account of the relation between the visual arts and theological currents in Europe during the first half of the sixteenth century. With an astute knowledge of the theology of the period and a keen interest in the lives and work of prominent
artists, Dillenberger makes incisive connections that illuminate the cultural movements of the time.

Images and Relics considers both popular and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195121724
• ISBN13: 9780195121728
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 7.0"