This etching recounts the Proverbs passage on the virtues of sharing grain, rather than hoarding it.
3ĭaniel Hopfer, Illustrations to Proverbs 2: The Hoarders of Grain (1534) Death and the Bishop, from his Power of Death cycle, criticizes clerical corruption. A pupil of Dürer’s, Aldegrever was an engraver whose small prints depicted a Lutheran theology. Luther was the most open of the reformers to religious imagery, if it was limited to personal engagement with symbolic spiritual imagery. Heinrich Aldegrever, Death and the Bishop (1541) Dürer’s woodcut expresses a Protestant outlook by depicting Jesus giving his new commandment, after Judas had fled the scene. But certain art forms, such as printmaking, were accepted due to their more modest, private nature. Motivated by the belief that emphasizing religious imagery was idolatrous, the Reformation caused a significant reduction in religious art produced in Protestant countries. This list is not meant as an all-encompassing compendium of everything essential to the Reformation and its theology, but rather as a glimpse of the variety of ways the movement that Martin Luther sparked in 1517 would influence the history of the world.
#Famous reformation portrait painter series
As we commemorate the 500 th anniversary of the Reformation, Living Lutheran is exploring 500 of its unique aspects, continuing our series this month with 50 Reformation works of art.
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