St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church

St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 657
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ISBN-10 : 9789004311886
ISBN-13 : 9004311882
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Book Synopsis St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church by : Jeffrey Muller

Download or read book St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church written by Jeffrey Muller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of more than forty churches that fortified Antwerp as the bulwark of the Counter Reformation in the Netherlands, only St. Jacob’s stands now with its art and archives intact. Parish church of the city’s elite, it is filled with masterpieces, including the altarpiece that Rubens painted for his own burial chapel. Works of architecture, painting, sculpture, and hundreds of sacred objects, documented by the archives, enable a reconstruction of the integral role that art played in the transformation of a whole society over the span of two centuries, from 1585 to the 1790s. It is a history of real people and organizations, who used art for religion, politics, and social purpose, joined together in a church that embodied a diverse community.


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