Presenting the Law: Text and Imagery on Dutch Ten Commandments Panels
Many Dutch Calvinist churches house a Ten Commandments panel, installed in the late sixteenth or seventeenth century as part of the Reformed adaptation of the medievalCatholic church interior. In this article, the characteristic design of Ten Commandments panelsis analyzed as a form of Calvinist visual culture. It suggests that these panels were primarilymade to be viewed rather than thoroughly read. The remarkably figurative Moses imagery onpanels points at a divergence between the rigid Reformed theological image prohibition andthe practice of the adaptation of the church interior. The place... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Schlagwörter: | Ten Commandments panels / Reformed visual culture / church interior |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27051068 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/7263 |