Lucas Cranach the Elder art and devotion of the German Reformation /

• Main Author: Noble, Bonnie.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009.
• Subjects: Cranach, Lucas, > 1472-1553 > Criticism and interpretation.; Reformation and art > Germany.; Art and religion.; Art > 16th century. > Germany; ART > Printmaking. > Techniques; DESIGN > General. > Graphic Arts; Electronic books.
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Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) is the most influential painter of the German Reformation. In collaboration with Martin Luther (1483-1546), Cranach produced innovative paintings which made the complex ideas of Lutheran Christianity understandable toa wide range of viewers and inspired later gene...

Table of Contents:

• Law and gospel and the strategies of pictorial rhetoric
• The Schneeberg Altarpiece and the structure of worship
• The Wittenberg Altarpiece: communal devotion and identity
• Holy visions and pious testimony: Weimar Altarpiece
• Public worship to private devotion: Cranach's reformation Madonna panels.