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I see England as having gone through waves of change:
First and biggest: The Dissolution, many monastic churches being
stripped of their roofs & allowed to fall down. (Others became
cathedrals or parish churches.)
A second wave under Elizabeth with iconoclast bishops like Horn of
Winchester.
A third under the Commonwealth. One hardly can visit a major church in
the areas that were Royalist during the Civil war without being told of
damage done by Cromwell's men.
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>>> Jon Cannon <[log in to unmask]> 07/26/06 7:09 PM >>>
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Luckily, the question is about art history (rather than history in
general): and there, the pivotal moment is surely the dissolution/s,
with the taking down of shrines a close-run second. Although
Protestant
approaches to art/iconoclasm didn't happen then, if there was any
moment
when the entire great industry of medieval great church making came
undone overnight, it was that one.
Jon
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Jon Cannon wrote:
> Chris Crockett wrote: 'there is no such Pivital Moment in the
History
> of Art.'
>
> There is in England. It's called the Reformation. And as far as I'm
> concerned if we're going for 'the Renaissance started on January 10
> 1409'-type exercises (I honestly read that sentence, or something
very
> close to it, in a textbook as an undergrad), that's where 'medieval'
> ends - not 1485.
Yes, but when do you date the Reformation in England? The break with
Rome?
The Dissolution of the Monasteries? Or the Protestant Prayer Book?
Bearing
in mind that the 1549 BCP wasn't regarded as particularly
Protestant...
The Official Roman Catholic line is that it was 1558 - which is absurd
on
any number of levels. And if it is supposed to be the death of
Cardinal
Pole, the height of hypocrisy - seeing that the Pope had secretly
stigmatised him as a heretic.
John Briggs
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