Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism

Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism

Grewe, Cordula

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2009

436

Dura

Inglês

9780754606451

15 a 20 dias

After a century of Rationalist skepticism and political upheaval, the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the forces of secularization and the crusaders of a Christian revival. From this battlefield arose an art movement that would become the torchbearer of a new religious art: Nazarenism. This study deals with Nazarenism.
Contents: Introduction; the great code of art: religious revival and the rebirth of pictorial meaning; Sulamith and Maria: erotic Mariology and the cult of friendship; Pietas and Vanitas: gender, moralization and allegory; The Seven Sacraments: romantic subjectivity and Catholic dogma; The Bible in Pictures: history lessons and popular culture; A family tree of German art: avant-garde, anti-Judaism and artistic identity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.