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Article: Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe.(Review)
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- March 22, 2001
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Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe. By John Dillenberger. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 248. $45.00.)
A well-known historian of religion, the author of this book presents a valuable study described by his publisher as, "the first comprehensive account of the relation between the visual arts and theological currents in Europe during the first half of the sixteenth century" (dust jacket). Successive chapters of the volume address the following topics: cultural and theological settings; Matthias Grunewald; Albrecht Durer; Lucas Cranach the Elder; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Hans ...