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After the Reformation the successful painter Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) dedicated himself to spreading revelations on the nature of God. Lautensack was besides Dürer the only German artist who wrote against the iconoclasts, and he believed that he as a painter could explain the images of Revelation better than theologians like Luther. He presented his insights in hundreds of highly sophisticated diagrams that display a wide range of material accessible to an urban craftsman, from the vernacular Bible to calendar illustrations. This study is the first monograph on this extraordinary man, it presents a corpus of his surviving works, analyzes his peculiar theology of the image and locates the elements of his diagrams in the visual world of the Reformation period.
Price: $327.00
Pages: 596
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word
Publication Date:
22 May 2014
ISBN: 9789004260696
Format: Other
"Lucid, precise, and well organized are not words that come to mind when confronted by Lautensack’s obsessive and often hermetic refigurings of sacred Scripture. Yet all these qualities characterize this impressive contribution to our knowledge of one the Reformation’s more remarkable offspring. [...] Kress follows this study in contextualization with a penetrating analysis of Lautensack’s diagrammatic method. [...] In Kress’s hands, Lautensack becomes, if not altogether comprehensible, at least graspable. Despite their dealing with post-medieval material, students of medieval diagrams will find many useful ideas in Kress’s historically well-informed analyses."
Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University. In: Medium Aevum 84/1 (2015), p. 142f.
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“This immensely impressive work of painstaking scholarship will be of interest to all scholars interested in the art, theology, and religious practice of the German Reformation and in the broader trajectories of arcane knowledge in the early modern period.”
Andrew Morrall, Bard Graduate Center. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 1069-1070.
Kathrin Müller, in Kunstchronik 68/5 (2015), pp. 234-240.
Susanna Berger, in Print Quarterly 32/4 (2015), p. 426f.
Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University. In: Medium Aevum 84/1 (2015), p. 142f.
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“This immensely impressive work of painstaking scholarship will be of interest to all scholars interested in the art, theology, and religious practice of the German Reformation and in the broader trajectories of arcane knowledge in the early modern period.”
Andrew Morrall, Bard Graduate Center. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 1069-1070.
Kathrin Müller, in Kunstchronik 68/5 (2015), pp. 234-240.
Susanna Berger, in Print Quarterly 32/4 (2015), p. 426f.
Berthold Kress, Ph. D. (2007) in History of Art, University of Cambridge, is Academic Assistant at the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute (London). He has published on Art and the Reformation and the Iconography of the Book of Daniel.