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May 30, 2024 · After the mass destruction of religious artworks by the angry mob, artists from Northwestern Europe were forced to seek new subjects. They found inspiration in their daily lives, still lives, and portraits. Read on to learn more about the most important artists of the Protestant Reformation.
Dec 24, 2021 · In Northwestern Europe, the 16th century was marked by the Protestant Reformation. While iconoclasts were destroying religious artworks, how could artists overcome this crisis?
Mar 28, 2024 · In this esteemed gallery of renowned religious paintings, step into history’s hallowed halls and gaze upon the works that have stood the test of time. Each masterpiece is a testament to the enduring power of religious art to captivate, challenge, and illuminate.
Apr 17, 2017 · Heinrich Aldegrever, Death and the Bishop (1541) Luther was the most open of the reformers to religious imagery, if it was limited to personal engagement with symbolic spiritual imagery. A pupil of Dürer’s, Aldegrever was an engraver whose small prints depicted a Lutheran theology.
Peter Bruegel (1525–1569) of Flanders is the great genre painter of his time, who worked for both Catholic and Protestant patrons. In most of his paintings, even when depicting religious scenes, most space is given to landscape or peasant life in 16th century Flanders.
Instead, Protestant art focused on humble depictions of biblical scenes and moralistic depictions of contemporary everyday life. See also the architectural paintings of Emanuel de Witte (1615-1692) and Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665), famous for their whitewashed church interiors.
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Protestantism (which divided into four types: Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican and Anabaptist) took root in Northern European countries like Holland, Germany (except Bavaria) and Britain, while Southern European countries like France, Italy and Spain (along with the Spanish colony of Flanders), remained Catholic.
