Church Art and Architecture in the Low Countries before 1566 (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies) - Hardcover

Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis

9780940474390: Church Art and Architecture in the Low Countries before 1566 (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940474395 ISBN 13: 9780940474390

Publisher: Truman State University Press, 1997

This volume presents a detailed survey of the art, furnishings, and architecture of Netherlandish churches at the time of the Reformation. Bangs summarizes the general history of the 1566 iconoclasm and the longer, ongoing process by which the churches attained their present appearance. The pre-Reformation church architecture of the Low Countries is examined according to its regional and structural varieties and the identifiable works of known architects.

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About the Author:

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs received his undergraduate and graduate art history education from the University of Leiden. He was Chief Curator at Plimoth Plantation and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Arizona State University. He is the author of Cornelis Engebrechtsz's Leiden, the official guidebook for the Pieterskerk, and has recently published a transcription of the city archives of Scituate, Massachusetts, among other works.

Review:

“Bangs remains a truly careful antiquarian... so this book, both as text and photographic archive, will remain a vital resource for all subsequent scholars who wish to pursue more interpretive and synthetic studies of Dutch religious art.”

—Sixteenth Century Journal

“Bangs’s book aims to recreate what the churches in the Low Countries looked like before they were stripped of their art during the Reformation.... The book’s utility lies in its offering the only complete survey of Catholic church furnishings in Dutch churches.”

—The Catholic Historical Review

“Bangs’s study provides a much-needed introduction to the furnishing of Netherlandish churches—to those objects that significantly determined the character and use of religious space in the decades before the iconoclastic riots.... Its ambitious scope makes this survey a significant contribution, particularly given the lack of comparable literature: it is one of the few publications in English on sixteenth-century Netherlandish architecture and its appointments, and the only introduction to the subject in any language. The bibliography of more specialized studies, mostly in Dutch, is also quite helpful.”

—Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter

“Hundreds of black-and-white photos throughout detail early church interiors and exteriors, while discussions contrast and compare church art and religious holdings. The extensive research which has resulted in such a study is evident in pages of in-depth description and history.”

—The Bookwatch

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