Re-Forming Mary in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prints

Late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch artists portrayed the Virgin Mary in an impressively diverse and iconographically complex range of themes--particularly in the easily reproducible medium of prints. Despite the widespread belief that Marian art and devotion disappeared from the Calvinist-dominated Northern Netherlands after the Reformation, prints of Mary demonstrate that the Dutch continued to venerate her, including Roman Catholics and Protestants. While some Marian prints sustained conventional Catholic modes of piety, other images reinterpreted her in a secular context to accom... Mehr ...