In "The Reformation of the Image", Joseph Leo Koerner examines the images used in Protestant church services during the period of their definition by Martin Luther. Focusing on Lucas Cranach the Elder's famous altarpiece for the City Church in Wittenberg, and drawing on a mass of other Lutheran images some of which have never been published before he elucidates a founding moment in European history when words were made the model for all communication. In determining why images persisted despite their repudiation as empty idols, Koerner locates the conflict between verbal and visual communication in the emergence of a state-supported, state-supporting faith. Examining the images made for Luther's new religion of inward belief, he shows the process by which, through an interplay between pictures and words, subjects were trained to believe what someone else believed. This ground-breaking study of a decisive but little-known episode in the history of art explores how, by re-describing arguments made against them, visual images persis.
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Brilliant... all-encompassing. Essential reading for all those interested in the history of religion, art and society in early modern Germany. -- Scotland on Sunday, March 2004
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Joseph Leo Koerner is Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. His books include The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (1993) and Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape (First Edition Reaktion 1993, Second Edition Reaktion 2009).
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The Lutheran Reformation and Visual Art
22 Mar 2006
By David P. Schultz
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This book deals primarily with the Reformation Lutheran view of visual arts (painting, statuary, etc.) While contrasting the Lutherans with Calvinists (who destroyed the artwork of their churches), this hefty volume exposes the Lutheran emphasis on teaching through artwork. The crucifix was allowed to continue in Lutheran churches, but 'the surrounding witness of saints' was dropped in favor of a Jesus-only piety.
This book also contains an extensive review of the illustrated Words used by Lutheran churches as a classroom-church ideal.
An interesting examination of theological communication, made very relevant by the modern use of screens, images and the like within modern Christian churches!
This book also contains an extensive review of the illustrated Words used by Lutheran churches as a classroom-church ideal.
An interesting examination of theological communication, made very relevant by the modern use of screens, images and the like within modern Christian churches!
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