Practice question · Put in order
Order these events in the Baroque century.
- Protestant iconoclasm strips churches of images
- Caravaggio’s tenebrist altarpieces scandalize Rome (~1600)
- Bernini stages the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647–52)
- Dutch merchants buy small sober canvases for their parlors
- Council of Trent decrees images must teach and move (1563)
Hints
- Iconoclasm and the official response come before the scandals.
- The northern market ran on the opposite principles simultaneously.
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- Protestant iconoclasm strips churches of images
- Council of Trent decrees images must teach and move (1563)
- Caravaggio’s tenebrist altarpieces scandalize Rome (~1600)
- Bernini stages the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647–52)
- Dutch merchants buy small sober canvases for their parlors
Why
Smashed images, a decree, a scandal, a spectacle, and simultaneously, in a Protestant republic, the exact opposite market. One century, two theologies, two kinds of picture.
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