Sujet

The Image Breaker, 1850. Creators: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Alfred Jones.

Légende

The Image Breaker, 1850. The clash between the persistence of Catholic veneration of the Virgin and Protestant orthodoxy in Elizabethan England provided Leutze with a dramatic subject, in which a Puritan husband destroys his wife’s statuette of the Madonna and Child.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A10_315

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,9Mo (6,2Mo) / 35,2cm x 42,0cm / 4153 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany England female women woman people male man men historical religious German arts country marriage religion figure figures virgin statue statues art guy British museum color scene Christianity saint Santa depiction location Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic statuette Britain artwork breaking altar concept wives wife santo husband destroying veneration Protestant Protestantism puritan puritans United States of America Colour 19th century Roman Catholicism Madonna Madonna and child nineteenth century venerating Virgin and Child culture American history historic America USA 1850s Elizabethan iconoclasm Iconoclast puritanism Reformation St Mary united states Indianapolis Museum of Art Alfred Jones Jones Alfred 1850 Heritage Art Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze Leutze Emanuel Gottlieb Emanuel Leutze Leutze Emanuel ima 19th-century Newfields Newfields Collection ink on paper engraving with hand-colouring