The religious paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen: reinventing Christian painting after the Reformation in Utrecht

Contents

Introduction. Art after iconoclasm : Hendrick ter Brugghen and the material image -- A Dutch painter in Italy : the attraction and critique of Caravaggio -- Archaism and the material image in Rome -- An Italianate artist in Utrecht : art and archaism within and without the hidden church -- Materiality and the presence of the past in Hendrick ter Brugghen's Crucifixion -- Icon, narrative, and iconoclasm in the Crowning with thorns -- The theology of conversion in the Doubting Thomas and Calling of Matthew -- Conclusion. Moving past materiality : The denial of Peter.