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.

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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.

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.

While Martin Luther was attacking abuses in the Church, a reformation within the Church was already being attempted. Among ...

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 ...

In this one-hour special, Rick Steves visits key sites relating to the Reformation and explores the complicated political world of 16th-century Europe — from indulgences to iconoclasts.

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.