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Author Noble, Bonnie

Title Lucas Cranach the Elder : art and devotion of the German Reformation / Bonnie Noble
Published Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 227 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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 generations of artists. Despite Cranach's crucial role as an interpreter of Lutheran ideas, his Reformation paintings remain unfamiliar to many American scholars. Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation presents Cranach's Reformation painting to a broader audience and explain
Analysis Art Germany 16th century
Art and religion
Cranach, Lucas <1472-1553> Criticism and interpretation
Reformation and art Germany
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index
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Subject Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553 fast
Cranach, Lucas, d.ä., 1472-1553 -- analys och tolkning. sao
Cranach, Lucas (Künstler, 1472-1553) swd
Subject Reformation and art -- Germany
Art and religion.
Art -- Germany -- 16th century
ART -- Techniques -- Printmaking.
DESIGN -- Graphic Arts -- General.
Art
Art and religion
Reformation and art
Altarblatt
Ikonographie
Lutherische Theologie
Reformationen och konst -- Tyskland.
Konst och religion.
Tysk konst -- 1500-talet.
Germany
Genre/Form dissertations.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
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0761843396
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