Lucas Cranach the Elder Art and Devotion of the German Reformation

Name: Lucas Cranach the Elder Art and Devotion of the German Reformation
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ISBN: 9780761843382

ISBN-10: 0761843388

ISBN-13: 9780761843382

Edition: 2009

Authors: Bonnie Noble

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This book presents Cranach's Reformation painting to a broader audience and explains the pictorial strategies Cranach devised to clarify and interpret Lutheran thought. For specialists in Reformation history, this study offers an interpretation of Cranach's art as an agent of religious change. For historians and students of Renaissance art, this study explores the defining work of a major sixteenth-century artist.

Book details

List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.03" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index