Decorating the Godly Household: Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain - Hardcover

Tara Hamling

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300162820 ISBN 13: 9780300162820

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2010

Synopsis

The Reformation is generally regarded as a calamitous episode in the history of British art, with the rich artistic heritage of the medieval period eradicated and replaced by an austere Protestant culture of the word. This title argues that religious subject matter was common in the arts of Protestant Britain.

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Review:

"These rooms come instantly to life, the pictorial vividness of their--supposedly illicit--biblical Protestant decor animated by Hamling's lively presentation. She buttresses these in situ interpretations with clearly presented information about the private daily life of the devout English family within the larger iconoclastic bounds of official doctrine."--Erika Boeckeler, Huntington Library Quarterly--Erika Boeckeler "Huntington Library Quarterly "

About the Author:

Tara Hamling is a RCUK/Roberts Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Birmingham, and a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, where she is currently based.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300162820
• ISBN 13: 9780300162820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256