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Cover -- In the Beginning Was the Image -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 In the Beginning Was the Image: Art and the Renaissance of the Bible -- 2 The Artist as Biblical Humanist -- 3 The Artist as Reformer -- 4 Dürer's Reformation: Art and Politics of Biblicism -- 5 Word Made Image: Cranach's Biblical Iconography -- 6 Holbein and the Art of the Heterogeneous Bible -- 7 Epilogue: For the God-​Fearing and the Art-​Loving -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A visual transformation of the Bible took place in the Renaissance and Reformation. Initially, this occurred as a result of technological advances, for the printing press proliferated biblical texts and images on a previously unimaginable scale. Equally important, Reformation theology, though also a threat to art, served as a catalyst for the creation of innovative biblical iconography. In the Beginning Was the Image demonstrates the pivotal role that the defining artists of the Northern Renaissance--Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Hans Holbein--played in the reformation of the Bible and the biblical transformation of Protestant art.