Hall, Marcia B.

The sacred image in the age of art / Marcia Hall. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011. - ix, 310 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-301) and index.

Changing times. Introduction -- Protestants and Catholics in dialogue on images -- The dilemma of naturalism -- Interpreting and narrating the sacred image -- Michelangelo's Last judgment and the failure of the sacred image at midcentury -- The decree and the didactic solution -- The affective response to Trent. Titian : his trip to Rome and after -- Jacopo Tintoretto : sacred narrative and theater -- Federico Barocci : from here to ecstasy -- El Greco : Italy transported to Spain -- Caravaggio : secularizing the sacred, sanctifying the secular -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Decree of the twenty-fifth session of the Council of Trent "On the invocation, veneration, and relics of saints, and on sacred images."

9780300169676 (cloth : alk. paper)

2010033306


Painting, Renaissance.
Christian art and symbolism--Europe--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Counter-Reformation in art.

ND1432.E85 / H35 2011

755/.209031