This book takes as its subject the most important kind of surviving post-Reformation church art and English Renaissance sculpture, the carved stone funeral monument.

This book takes as its subject the most important kind of surviving post-Reformation church art and English Renaissance sculpture, the carved stone funeral monument. These complex constructions, comprising sculpted figures and architectural framing, were set up in huge numbers during the years around 1600 and still survive in their thousands in parish churches across England.

Nigel Llewellyn's long-awaited study of post-Reformation English funeral monuments proves to be even more than the comprehensive treatment of the subject which one had expected

Nigel Llewellyn's long-awaited study of post-Reformation English funeral monuments proves to be even more than the comprehensive treatment of the subject which one had expected. It also offers a virtual manifesto on behalf of the new art history against the agenda and shibboleths of the traditional. As Llewellyn points out in his opening chapter, English art and architecture of this era has always received short shrift, even from its own art historians

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Start by marking Funeral Monuments in Post-Reformation England as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. These complex constructions, comprising sculpted figures and architectural framing, were set up in huge numbers during the years around 1600 and thousands still survive in parish churches across England. This This book takes as its subject the most important kind of surviving post-Reformation church art and English Renaissance sculpture, the carved stone funeral monument.

Find sources: "English church monuments" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR . Llewellyn, Nigel (2000). Funeral Monuments in Post-Reformation England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Find sources: "English church monuments" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). The church monuments of England, in particular, have been preserved in far greater numbers and, generally, in better condition than those of other countries. They are second to none in artistic merit. Fine examples may be found in cathedrals and parish churches in every county.

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Now Nigel Llewellyn corrects the false approaches that have beleaguered the study of 16th and 17th-century tombs

Now Nigel Llewellyn corrects the false approaches that have beleaguered the study of 16th and 17th-century tombs. He sets out to free early modern funerary sculpture from the Italocentric obsession of conventional art historians: the monuments are not primarily to be approached aesthetically, but, like so much else of the time, for their didactic and moral content. Llewellyn places the monuments in the troubled context of the English reformation. The book is lavishly illustrated, and the variety of monuments shown emphasises the richness of this comparatively neglected aspect of art. For, despite Llewellyn's reservations, this is art, and there are limitations to his approach.

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