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Lucas Cranach the Elder : art and devotion of the German reformation / Bonnie Noble.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noble, Bonnie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reformation and art--Germany.
- Reformation and art.
- Art and religion.
- Art--Germany--16th century.
- Art.
- Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cranach, Lucas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 35.00 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.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 1. Law and Gospel and the Strategies of Pictorial Rhetoric Chapter 2 2. The Schneeberg Altarpiece and the Structure of Worship Chapter 3 3. The Wittenberg Altarpiece: Communal Devotion and Identity Chapter 4 4. Holy Visions and Pious Testimony: Weimar Altarpiece Chapter 5 5. Public Worship to Private Devotion: Cranach's Reformation Madonna Panels
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-49859-2
- 9786612498596
- 0-7618-4339-6
- OCLC:
- 371539210
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