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May 20, 2009
Mia M. Mochizuki The Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm, 1566–1672: Material Religion in the Dutch Golden Age Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. 424 pp.; 158 color ills.; 61 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9780754661047)
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In the opening sentence of her book, The Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm, 1566–1672: Material Religion in the Dutch Golden Age, Mia Mochizuki reminds us that we often see what we expect to see; consequently, we often readily overlook the unexpected, even when it is right in front of us. The decoration of Dutch Reformed churches, for instance, is typically viewed merely in terms of iconoclastic negation, leaving existing Protestant imagery unnoticed. Although numerous Catholic objects...