The origins of Protestant aesthetics in early modern Europe : Calvin's Reformation poetics / William A. Dyrness, Fuller Theological Seminary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyrness, William A., author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Reformed Church.

History.

Christianity and art.

Christianity and art--Reformed Church.

Europe.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.

Calvin, Jean.

Christianity and art--Reformed Church--History--16th century.

Christianity and art--Europe--History--16th century.

Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Reformed Church--History--16th century.

Aesthetics.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound shift in aesthetic perception that occurred during the Renaissance and Reformation. In this book, William A. Dyrness examines intellectual developments in late Medieval Europe, which turned attention away from a narrow range liturgical art and practices and towards a celebration of God's presence in creation and in history. Though threatened by the human tendency to self-assertion, he shows how a new focus on God's creative and recreative action in the world gave time and history a new seriousness, and engendered a broad spectrum of aesthetic potential. Focusing in particular on the writings of Luther and Calvin, Dyrness demonstrates how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Preface

Introduction: the medieval context of the Reformation

Presence and likeness in Holbein, Luther, and Cranach

Calvin: creation, drama, and time

Calvin, language, and literary culture

Portraits and dramatic u]culture in sixteenth-century England

The emerging aesthetic of early modern England: a new world with echoes of the past

The new visual culture of reformed Holland and France

Epilogue: the cultural afterlife of Protestant aesthetics

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781108493352

1108493351

9781108717823

1108717829

OCLC:

1089882409