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Topic 11 – Reading pictures: The Reformation challenge

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Key terms:

· Martin Luther (1483-1546)

· Protestant Reformation (starts in 1517)

· Diet of Worms/Excommunication of Luther (1521)

· Iconoclasm

· Andreas Karlstadt, On the Removal of Images (1522)

· Peace of Augsburg (1555)

· Counter Reformation; Council of Trent (1545-1563)

· ‘Wonder year’ in the Low Countries (1566-1567)

· Spanish fury in Antwerp (1576)

Image group URL: Reformation http://www.artstor.org/artstor/ViewImages?q=gDJHdjcq&userId=gjZDdw%3D%3D&igName=4wZDfSg5JiEuKi8%3D

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Lucas Cranach the Elder

Last Supper Altarpiece

Before 1539

St Mary’s Church, Wittenberg

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Veit Stoss

Angelic salutation

1517-18

St Lawrence’s Church, Nuremberg

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Frans Floris

Fall of rebel angels

1554

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Maarten de Vos

The Marriage at Cana

1596-97