Art and Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe

About Bridget HealJoseph Leo Koerner

Bridget Heal is director of the Reformation Studies Institute at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety 15001648 (Cambridge University Press 2007) and of A Magnificent Faith: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany (Oxford University Press 2017). She has published extensively on various aspects of Lutheran visual culture during the early modern period and currently co-edits the journal German History. Joseph Leo Koerner is the Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture and a Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows Harvard University. He was co-curator of the 2002 exhibition Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars (ZKM Karlsruhe). His books include The Reformation of the Image (University of Chicago Press 2004) and Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life (Princeton University Press 2016).