St. Jacob's Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens's Parish Church (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004311862)

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.

Author: Jeffrey Muller
ISBN-10: 9004311866
ISBN-13: 9789004311862
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2016
Pages: 632
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.60d