ARTH 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Peacemaker Kurogane, Lapis Lazuli, Sebastiano Ricci
6 Dec 2017
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Luther was able to leave the diet of the worms: he was excommunicated and determined to be a heretic. Luther was forced into hiding: became the figure of junker jorg, many people thought that luther was dead at this point. Lutheranism became an entirely separate movement: became separate from the catholic church, rather than trying to reform the church from within. If images were deemed useless at best, this undercut the entire idea of image making that ruled the renaissance. Luther himself did not promote destroying images: he thought this would lead to further scandal. Instead, he thought images should be quietly removed and kept in a secular context from churches: others started destroying images. Ideas could be circulated through these woodcuts: for example, there was a series of images about the passion of christ and the anti- In a culture so rich with images, no one made a print or image of the sack of rome.
