Hans Belting, the Aesthetics of Compensation and the Reform

Abstract

The interpretation of the Reformation allows to draw a comparison between Hans Belting’s thought concerning the separation between the era of image and the era of art, and Joachim Ritter’s and Odo Marquard’s philosophy of aesthetic compensation. The present work aims to examine affinities and differences between such views, from terminological questions to the understanding of the role of the images in Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Catholicism.