Fashion for God: Religious Textiles from Hidden Churches in the Dutch Republic 1580-1800

A fully illustrated book supporting the exhibition Fashion for God in the Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht.

When the survival of the Catholic Church was threatened during the Republic and Catholic shelter churches were not allowed to be recognizable from the street, what was not allowed to be shown on the outside was compensated for on the inside. In the 17th century, the robes became gold, silver and silk expressions of silent resistance, but also of a feminist agenda of the makers. Behind...