Debunking the myth of the stark white Protestant church interior, this study explores the very objects and architectural additions that were in fact added to Ne

Debunking the myth of the stark white Protestant church interior, this study explores the very objects and architectural additions that were in fact added to Ne

After 1500, as Catholic Europe fragmented into warring sects, evidence of a pagan past came newly into view, and travelers to distant places encountered deeply

This book is a reconsideration of the practice of whitewashing church interiors during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It