Pictures and Popery: Art and Religion in England, 1660-1760Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 185 pages Pictures and Popery investigates the reception of great Renaissance works of art and wider cultural activities. It also reintroduces the accepted nature of English identity and religious attitudes into the broad historical narrative. In so doing, this book offers a genuinely new and stimulating insight into the cultural, religious and social development of late-Stuart and early-Hanoverian England. |
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