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Author Ozment, Steven E., author

Title The serpent & the lamb : Cranach, Luther, and the making of the Reformation / Steven Ozment
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 325 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction: What's in a coat-of-arms? -- Cranach in history, art, and religion -- Chasing Dürer -- The compleat court painter -- Workshop Wittenberg: Cranach domestic and entrepreneurial -- Marketing Luther -- Gospel art -- Cranach's women -- Women on top -- Remembering Cranach and Luther
Summary "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 (1472-1553) and Luther (1483-1546) in this generously illustrated book. He contends that Cranach's new art and Luther's oratory released a barrage of criticism upon the Vatican, the force of which secured a new freedom of faith and pluralism of religion in the Western world. Between Luther's pulpit praise of the sex drive within the divine estate of marriage and Cranach's parade of strong, lithe women, a new romantic, familial consciousness was born. The 'Cranach woman' and the 'Lutheran household' -- both products of the merged Renaissance and Reformation worlds -- evoked a new organization of society and foretold a new direction for Germany."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553 -- Criticism and interpretation
Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553 -- Friends and associates
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 -- Friends and associates
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Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 fast
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Luther, Martin 1483-1546 gnd
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Subject Reformation and art -- Germany
ART -- History -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
Friendship
Reformation and art
Reformation
Germany
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553.
LC no. 2011027308
ISBN 9780300178388
0300178387
1283382229
9781283382229
Other Titles Serpent and the lamb