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Band 1-3 [Set Kunst und Religion zwischen Mittelalter und Barock, Bd 1-3]
About this book
An overview of the multifaceted relationships between art and religion from the late middle ages to the eighteenth century has been lacking to date. This volume traces these relationships in the fine arts, literature, and music. The art of this period was predominantly religious or, more precisely, influenced by Christianity. This is true not just of the middle ages, whose scholastic theology was reflected in Dante’s Divine Comedy, but also of the Renaissance, Reformation/Counterreformation and Baroque. This Christian influence can be found in works of art, but also in musical compositions like the Mass, which were commissioned either by or for churches and ecclesiastical institutions.
Author / Editor information
Jan Rohls, Ludwig Maximillian University Munich, Germany.
Topics
Dante’s "Divine Comedy" is at the pinnacle of medieval literature and the poetic adaptation of scholastic theology. At the same time, it opened the door to the Renaissance, which meant a new beginning, not just in literature, but also in painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. Starting in Italy, the Renaissance spread throughout Europe, its humanism drawing on antiquity to create new forms of religiosity as well.
The Reformation leveled criticism at cultural images, which sometimes led to iconoclasm. While Calvinism drew on the Old Testament’s aniconism, Counter-Reformatory Catholicism clung to iconodulism. In church music, various forms of worship led to the mass, the chorale, and the psalter, while literature was frequently called into the service of confessional propaganda.
In the Baroque period, ecclesiastical painting bloomed in Italy and Spain, but also in the Spanish Netherlands, whereas the fine arts in the Calvinist north had to look for tasks outside the church. While Rome and Paris developed architecturally into centers of Catholicism, a culture of religious music took shape in the Lutheran territories of the empire, which reached its pinnacle in Bach.
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