Art, piety and destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction: Art and religion : then and now / Virginia Chieffo Raguin -- Salvaging saints : the rescue and display of relics in Munich during the early Catholic Reformation / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Does religion matter? Adam Kraft's eucharistic tabernacle and Eobanus Hessus / Corine Schlief -- You are what you wear (and use, and see) : the form of the reform in England / Virginia Chieffo Raguin -- Repackaging the past : the survival, preservation and reinterpretation of the medieval windows of St. Mary's, Fairford, Gloucestershire / Sarah Brown -- Preserving antiquity in a Protestant city : the Maison Carrée in sixteenth-century Nîmes / David Karmon -- Destruction or preservation? the meaning of graffiti on paintings in religious sites / Véronique Plesch -- Inquisitorial practices past and present : artistic censorship, the Virgin Mary, and St. Anne / Charlene Villaseñor Black