Iconoclasm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Iconoclasm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Calvin, Zwingli and others for the sake of saving the Word rejected all art; Luther, with an equal concern for the Word, but far more conservative, would have all the arts to be the servants of the Gospel."

I don't know if I want to agree here, but it seems like the writer here seems to say that Calvin himself left no room for art. I don't believe this is entirely true. Such a statement would make any Calvinist want to side with Luther, if he or she is inclined to the humanities, i.e., the arts. I know for me that I love to study Renaissance art and its impact on history. When I read Calvin's Institutes, Book 1, I didn't get the idea that all pictorial forms are sinful. I think this is just a disingenuous critique of Calvin's interpretation of the Decalogue by calling him a radical, much like Andreas Karlstadt and the peasant wars of Germany.