Reformation and the Secularization of Art

• Published in: Communio viatorum Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 245 - 264
• Main Author: Taufer, Filip
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum 01.01.2024; Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press; Karolinum Press
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Christian Theology and Religion; Cultural history; History of Art; History of Church(es); Sociology of Art; Theology and Religion; image; art; Reformation; everyday life; the ordinary

The article examines the Reformation as one of the sources of the secularization of art and simultaneously an impulse for new unintended developments with spiritual potential. It argues that the reformers’ attitudes towards art helped facilitate the emergence and development of new secular subjects...