Download or read book St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church written by Jeffrey Muller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Jacob’s is the only church to survive intact from Antwerp’s Counter Reformation (1585-1794). Jeffrey Muller wreathes together the testimony of masterpieces and archives in Rubens’s parish church to reconstruct art’s integral role in religion and the transformation of society.