Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents: Introduction; the great code of art: religious revival and the rebirth of pictorial meaning; Sulamith and Maria: erotic Mariology and the cult of friendship; Pietas and Vanitas: gender, moralization and allegory; The Seven Sacraments: romantic subjectivity and Catholic dogma; The Bible in Pictures: history lessons and popular culture; A family tree of German art: avant-garde, anti-Judaism and artistic identity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.