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MULLER JeffreySt. Jacob's Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens's Parish ChurchLeiden : Brill, 2016, XXIV-631 p.Collection Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; 13ISBN 978-90-04-31186-2ANV 71Résumé éditeur : Of more than forty churches that fortified Antwerp as the bulwark of the Counter Reformation in the Netherlands, only St. Jacob’s stands now with its art and archives intact. Parish church of the city’s elite, it is filled with masterpieces, including the altarpiece that Rubens painted for his own burial chapel. Works of architecture, painting, sculpture, and hundreds of sacred objects, documented by the archives, enable a reconstruction of the integral role that art played in the transformation of a whole society over the span of two centuries, from 1585 to the 1790s. It is a history of real people and organizations, who used art for religion, politics, and social purpose, joined together in a church that embodied a diverse community. (4e de couv.)Jeffrey Muller, Ph. D. (1977), Yale University, is Professor of the History of Art at Brown University. His writings on early modern art include Ruben's Collection in History (2004) and Jesuit Uses of Art in the Province of Flanders (2015)Axe de recherches :  Axe 2 : Arts et mémoires d'Europe