In the Beginning Was the Image: Art and the Reformation Bible

by David Price

This pioneering study focuses on the decisive contributions of the three leading artists of the Northern Renaissance--Albrecht D rer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Hans Holbein the Younger-- to the printed Bible and to the transformation of ecclesiastical art in the Protestant Reformation.

A time of artistic and theological revolution, the Renaissance and Reformation also witnessed a visual reformation of the Bible. In David H. Price's new interpretation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019007440X
• ISBN13: 9780190074401
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"