The Gouda Windows (1552-1572)

Art and Catholic Renewal on the Eve of the Dutch Revolt
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-40714-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 310/44, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

The Gouda Windows (1552–1572): Art and Catholic Renewal on the Eve of the Dutch Revolt offers the first complete analysis of the cycle of monumental Renaissance stained-glass windows donated to the Sint Janskerk in Gouda, after a fire gutted it in 1552. Central among the donors were King Philip II of Spain and Joris van Egmond, Bishop of Utrecht, who worked together to reform the Church. The inventor of the iconographic program, a close associate to the bishop as well as the king, strove to renew Catholic art by taking the words of Jesus as a starting point. Defining Catholic religion based on widely accepted biblical truths, the ensemble shows that the Mother Church can accommodate all true Christians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eck, Xander van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

List of Illustrations X

Note to the Reader XVii

Introduction

1 Patronage

1.1 A Clean Slate

1.2 Clerical Patrons

1.3 Royal and Noble Donors

1.4 Employing the Artists

2 The Choir: He Must Increase, and I Must Decrease

2.1 John the Baptist as a Foil to Christ

2.2 An Elusive Written Program

2.3 Testimony about Christ

2.4 Imprisonment and Death

2.5 The Bible and St. Augustine

2.6 Beyond St. Augustine: Erasmus and Herman Lethmaet

2.7 The Apostle Series in the Clerestory

3 The Transept: There Shall No Sign Be Given

3.1 A Separate Program?

3.2 The King’s Window

3.3 Margaret of Parma’s Gift

3.4 Jonah and Bileam

3.5 Turmoil in the Temple

4 The Nave: ‘But Ye Shall Receive Power’

4.1 Elburga van den Boetzelaer and the Queen of Sheba

4.2 Margaret of Arenberg as a Second Judith

4.3 Philip de Ligne, a Crippled Warlord Praying to Be Healed

4.4 Choir, Transept and Nave: One Narrative?

Über Autor(innen)

Xander van Eck (1962), professor of art history at Izmir University of Economics, has published widely on the art of the counter-reformation in the Netherlands. His Clandestine Splendor. Painting for the Catholic Church in the Dutch Republic appeared in 2007.