In the Beginning Was the Image - Price, David H
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A visual transformation of the Bible took place in the Renaissance and Reformation. Initially, this occurred as a result of technological advances, for the printing press proliferated biblical texts and images on a previously unimaginable scale. Equally important, Reformation theology, though also a threat to art, served as a catalyst for the creation of innovative biblical iconography. In the Beginning Was the Image demonstrates the pivotal role that the defining artists of the Northern Renaissance--Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Hans Holbein--played in the reformation of the Bible and the biblical transformation of Protestant art.…mehr

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A visual transformation of the Bible took place in the Renaissance and Reformation. Initially, this occurred as a result of technological advances, for the printing press proliferated biblical texts and images on a previously unimaginable scale. Equally important, Reformation theology, though also a threat to art, served as a catalyst for the creation of innovative biblical iconography. In the Beginning Was the Image demonstrates the pivotal role that the defining artists of the Northern Renaissance--Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Hans Holbein--played in the reformation of the Bible and the biblical transformation of Protestant art.
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David H. Price, Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University, has written extensively on a broad range of topics, including Renaissance visual art, Christian-Jewish relations, religious toleration, the history of the Bible, humanism, and the Reformation. He is also the author of Defending Judaism: Jewish Writing and Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books, and Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith.