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Whereas entire libraries discuss the religious and political history of the sixteenth century in Northern Europe, focused on the Reformation and the rise of nation-states, Larry Silver uniquely traces the dramatic, even traumatic changes of the Reformation era discernible in the visual arts, especially paintings and the new medium of prints. Among the subjects and themes he explores are the destruction of church images, witchcraft, reactions to new voyages of exploration, and issues of vision itself in an age when moral codes and the nature of sin and death were being re-examined.

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Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, emeritus, at the University of Pennyslvania, also taught at Berkeley and Northwestern. He served as President of the College Art Association and the Historians of Netherlandish Art, and is the author of numerous books and articles about early modern visual culture, including monographs on Bosch, Bruegel, and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.

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