The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0702 Thursday, 18 October 2007
From: David Evett <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 15:34:25 -0400
Subject: 18.0698 Paintings in Stratford
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0698 Paintings in Stratford
Further to Peter Bridgman's list of religious images plausibly available
to Shakespeare in his lifetime, it should be noted that despite radical
Protestant iconoclasm, many more or less religious books of a distinctly
Protestant character were illustrated, from various editions of the
Geneva and other Bibles and John Day's psalter through Spenser's
*Shepheardes Calender* and Foxe's *Actes and Monuments*. Religious
tapestries, embroideries, mantelpieces, decorated furniture, panel
paintings, and painted walls and windows in many private houses would
have survived the iconoclasts' fervor; those buildings might also
contain illuminated breviaries and books of hours or illustrated books
from the period before the Reformation and Continental books and prints
after it.
David Evett
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