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    Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation
    Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation
    Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation
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    Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation

    By Bonnie Noble

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    This book presents Cranach's Reformation painting to a broader audience and explains the pictorial strategies Cranach devised to clarify and interpret Lutheran thought. For specialists in Reformation history, this study offers an interpretation of Cranach's art as an agent of religious change. For historians and students of Renaissance art, this st
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateMar 16, 2009
    ISBN9780761843399
    Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation

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