Antoni their customs, and language), which introduced the understanding of ancient times
Ziemba different from classical-ancient or Biblical-Christian into German historiography, and
prepared grounds for the altdeutsche Geschichte and altdeutsche Kunst/Meister concepts.
A different source area must have been provided by the Reformation and its iconoclasm,
as well as the reaction to it, both on the Catholic, post-Tridentine side, and moderate
Lutheran: in the form of paintings, often regarded by the people as ‘holy’ and ‘miracu-
lous’; these were freąuently ancient presentations, either Italo-Byzantine icons or works
respected for their old age. Their ‘antiąuity’ value raised by their defenders as symbols
of the precedence of Christian cult at a given place contributed to the development of
the concept of‘ancient’ and ‘old’ painters in the 17th- 18th century.
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Ziemba different from classical-ancient or Biblical-Christian into German historiography, and
prepared grounds for the altdeutsche Geschichte and altdeutsche Kunst/Meister concepts.
A different source area must have been provided by the Reformation and its iconoclasm,
as well as the reaction to it, both on the Catholic, post-Tridentine side, and moderate
Lutheran: in the form of paintings, often regarded by the people as ‘holy’ and ‘miracu-
lous’; these were freąuently ancient presentations, either Italo-Byzantine icons or works
respected for their old age. Their ‘antiąuity’ value raised by their defenders as symbols
of the precedence of Christian cult at a given place contributed to the development of
the concept of‘ancient’ and ‘old’ painters in the 17th- 18th century.
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