"Scripture for the Eyes Bible Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century" Exhibition
Museum of Biblical Art
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"Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century" will be the first major exhibition to explore the central role played by printed illustrations of subjects from both the Old and New Testaments in one of the most dramatic artistic and religious transformations in European history. Prints are often viewed as merely mimicking or following artistic developments in the more prestigious medium of painting, and, more generally, the visual arts are seen as mirroring societal change. Through approximately 80 engravings, woodcuts, and illustrated Bibles and books by Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Philips Galle, Hendrick Goltzius, Hieronymus Wierix, and others, these views are challenged, and the biblical prints are shown to have been a dynamic force both in the transformation of Northern European art between Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn and in the intensified attention to Scripture in the religious turmoil of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The exhibition will be organized according to the diverse functions of the prints rather than according to a chronology of their production or a biblical narrative.
[Image: Lucas van Leyden "The Return of the Prodigal Son" (c.1510)]
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Schedule
from June 05, 2009 to September 27, 2009
Artist(s)
Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Philips Galle, Hendrick Goltzius, Hieronymus Wierix et al.