During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an estimated 97% of religious art in England during the English Civil War. Very few church paintings survived.

LACMA's newly opened “Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach” is a deeply absorbing show about the rise of Martin Luther and his influence on art.

ANY account of reformation and art really does not need to begin with iconoclasm: there are wood­cuts and paintings, portraits and altarpieces. Dürer, too, was an admirer of Luther’s, and there is a ...

The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, was the Catholic Church's effort to revive and truly reform Catholicism in Europe following the Protestant Reformation.

Kathy Hebb. In a 17th-century painting that hangs in the Yale Divinity School, a group of Reformation thinkers clusters around a table, with Martin Luther occupying pride of place at the center of ...

LONDON, England — For years, the dramatic paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi, a Catholic artist of the Counter-Reformation, were misattributed to male artists – most often her father, Orazio ...

A newly-restored "rare" medieval panel painting survived the Reformation because it was "recycled" in the 16th Century, conservators believe. The Kiss of Judas was painted in about 1460 in ...

These paintings were made between 2011 and 2018, and the recent ones are more formally audacious. Some are seven-sided, and one is mounted on stretchers whose jagged ends stretch past the canvas.

Francisco de Zurbarán’s stunning Counter-Reformation paintings are filled with martyrs, myths and magi.

The Reformation, a new docudrama ... Speaking to the Register, she agreed it was a challenge: “There were many hours of research from books, paintings and, of course, the internet.

A "rare" English medieval panel painting survived the Reformation because it was "recycled" in the 16th Century, say conservators.