Bridget Heal
\nLuther, Cranach and the Reformation of the image<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Cranach the Elder has long been known as the<\/i> painter of the Reformation. His friendship and collaboration with Luther are well documented. Cranach produced propaganda in support of Luther\u2019s message; he designed the woodcuts that illustrated Luther\u2019s 1522 September<\/i> and December New Testament<\/i>, and those that illustrated his 1529 Large<\/i> and Small<\/i> Catechism<\/i>; he produced portraits of the reformer and of Katharina von Bora, and numerous illustrated title pages and borders for Luther\u2019s pamphlets, sermons and other writings. His Wittenberg workshop created evangelical altarpieces for churches in Schneeberg (1539), Schloss Hartenfels in Torgau (1545) and Wittenberg (1547). It was, however, under his son that the workshop\u2019s production for Lutheran patrons really accelerated. Against the backdrop of the 1555 the Religious Peace of Augsburg commissions for Lutheran church furnishings \u2013 above all altarpieces and epitaphs \u2013 began to grow. Under Cranach the Younger the Wittenberg workshop also continued to produce portraits of Luther and Philip Melanchthon, and depictions of traditional iconographies such as the Law and Gospel<\/i>.<\/p>\n This seminar will explore the prints and paintings produced by the Cranach workshop in the service of the Reformation, giving participants an opportunity to engage at first hand with the rich selection of images that remain in Wittenberg today. It will situate these Lutheran images within broader traditions of late-medieval religious art and its iconoclastic destruction during the Reformation era, and it will draw extensively on recent research publications produced for the 2015 quincentenary of Cranach the Younger\u2019s birth: Elke A. Werner, Anne Eusterschulte, Gunnar Heydenreich eds., Lucas Cranach der J\u00fcngere und die Reformation der Bilder<\/em> (2015);\u00a0Roland Enke, Katja Schneider, Jutta Strehle eds., Lucas Cranach der J\u00fcngere: Entdeckung eines Meisters<\/i> (2015); Jan Harasimowicz, Bettina Seyderhelm eds., Cranachs Kirche <\/i>(2015).<\/p>\n Languages: German and English<\/p>\n13. Internationaler Kongress f\u00fcr Lutherforschung<\/h3>\n