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Images - Part III: Section B – Reformation Agendas
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1.   Martin Luther as an Augustinian Friar (1520)
This is a very early portrait of Martin Luther as an Augustinian friar with tonsure and habit. Like many of the Luther images in circulation at the time, this woodcut is based on a portrait by Lucas....
Martin Luther as an Augustinian Friar (1520)
2.   Martin Luther as Holy Man (after 1519)
This woodcut is a good example of the Luther imagery that circulated before and after the Diet of Worms in 1521. It shows him as a divinely inspired holy man. Woodcut by Hieronymus Hopfer (c. 1500-63),....
Martin Luther as Holy Man (after 1519)
3.   Martin Luther as Professor of Theology (1523)
This etching is a copy of a copperplate engraving by the famous Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. Martin Luther is portrayed in both his doctoral beret and his monastic habit. Cranach emphasizes....
Martin Luther as Professor of Theology (1523)
4.   Christ Drives the Moneychangers out of the Temple (1521)
This woodcut comes from Passionary of Christ and Antichrist, a famous series by the Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553). In the series, Cranach portrays the pope not as....
Christ Drives the Moneychangers out of the Temple (1521)
5.   Christ Washes the Feet of his Disciples (1521)
This woodcut comes from Passionary of Christ and Antichrist, a famous series by the Renaissance....
Christ Washes the Feet of his Disciples (1521)
6.   Christ is Flogged (1521)
This woodcut comes from Passionary of Christ and Antichrist, a famous series by the Renaissance....
Christ is Flogged (1521)
7.   The Marburg Colloquy of 1529 (1867)
After the Lutherans raised their protest at the Imperial Diet of Speyer in 1529, thus giving rise to the name “Protestant,” the doctrinal quarrel between Martin....
The Marburg Colloquy of 1529 (1867)
8.   The Seven-Headed Papacy (c. 1530)
The following image and the accompanying text present the papacy as a diabolical institution. The woodcut shows a cross bearing the instruments of Christ’s passion and crucifixion. Attached to it....
The Seven-Headed Papacy (c. 1530)
9.   Ulrich Zwingli (c. 1531)
Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) was a Zürich priest and preacher who became the principal leader of an evangelical faction that quickly gained control of the city government. Celebrated as the chief reformer....
Ulrich Zwingli (c. 1531)
10.   Martin Luther Preaching (1547)
This painting is one of four plates that comprise the altarpiece in the Wittenberg parish church where Martin Luther once preached. Executed by the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1547, it....
Martin Luther Preaching (1547)
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