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Serpent and the Lamb Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

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ISBN-10: 030016985X

ISBN-13: 9780300169850

Edition: 2011

Authors: Steven Ozment

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This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-reformer Martin Luther (the Lamb). Contemporaries and friends (each was godfather to the other's children), Cranach and Luther were very different Germans, yet their collaborative successes merged art and religion into a revolutionary force that became the Protestant Reformation. Steven Ozment, an internationally recognized historian of the Reformation era, reprises the lives and works of Cranach (14721553) and Luther (14831546) in this generously…    
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/3/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Steven Ozment is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University. He is the author of Flesh and Spirit and The Bürgermeister�e(tm)s Daughter.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: What's in a Coat-Of-Arms?
The Serpent
The Lamb
Cranach in History, Art, and Religion
Taking the Measure of Cranach
Painter and Entrepreneur
"Most German of the Germans"
Art and History
Dismal Analysis
Cranach at the Gate: Breaking the Renaissance Mold
Chasing D�rer
From Kronach to Wittenberg
Friedl�nder's "Twenty-two": Were Cranach's First Works His Best?
The Difference Time Makes: Trekking to Schleissheim
Beautiful People: The Cuspinians and the Reusses
The Body Ascetic and Erotic
On the Sunny Side
The Compleat Court Painter
Wittenberg Calling
The New Job
Changing Styles: The St. Catherine Altar
Praising Cranach in Word and Deed
Self-Assertion
Anticipating Luther
Workshop Wittenberg: Cranach Domestic and Entrepreneurial
Old House, New House
Barbara Brengbier Cranach
Cranach as Taskmaster
Publisher
The Cranach Pharmacy
Marketing Luther
Allies
The Artist and the Theologians
Worms, Wartburg, and Wittenberg: Luther Under Cover
Cranach in Halle, 1521-23: Luther Betrayed?
Gospel Art
Circling Wagons
Disenchanted Art?
Art and Revolution
The Malady of Genius and the Remedy of Faith
Cranach's Melancholy
Humankind's Best Friends
Cranach's Women
The Moral-Domestic Front
Fascinating Women
History and Myth: The Magdeburg Venus
Were Cranach's Women Tramps?
Antiquing Sex: The Politics of Art and Nudity
Women on Top
Defenders of the Fatherland
The Biblical Stories
Homicides and Suicides
Testing Testosterone
The Judgment of Paris: Still Judging After All This Time
Venus Waning, Amor Rising: Cranach Steals the Scene
The World We Have Lost
Remembering Cranach and Luther
Cranach in Exile
Cranach Goes to the Mountain
The Money Trail to the Grave
Cranach and Luther upon the Altars
Notes
Index