Larry Silver receives Roland Bainton Book Prize

Professor Larry Silver has been awarded (with co-author Shelley Perlove) the 2010 Roland Bainton Award for the best book in Art and Music History by the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference

Their book, Rembrandt's Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age, was published by Penn State University Press in 2009. It is the first book to offer a holistic analysis of Rembrandt's oeuvre of religious images in paintings, etchings, and drawings. The book also situates Rembrandt's own evolving spirituality within the complex religious stew of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, a diverse crossroads of Calvinists, Mennonites, Quakers, Catholics, and Jews, as well as Socinians and other more obscure denominations. Silver also recently co-edited (with Jeffrey Chipps Smith of the University of Texas, Austin) a Penn Press publication, The Essential Dürer (2010) on the celebrated sixteenth-century German artist.