Volume 21, Number 9 · May 30, 1974
Broken Images
By Frances A. Yates
The Reformation of Images: Destruction of Art in England, 1535-1660
by John Phillips
University of California Press, 228, 32 plates pp., $10.00
The population of images in medieval England was doubtless more numerous than the scanty population of living human beings. Figured in windows, sculptured in statuary, carved and painted in countless scenes, the images were the close companions of medieval man. From them he learned what he knew of history and the Scriptures. With them he furnished his memory, setting his memory images on memory places. As he looked around his world, in which all the main buildings were ecclesiastical, he saw those innumerable figures of sacred history or of allegory, designed through their striking character to impress on his memory the teachings of the Church.
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