The reformation of the image

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Title The reformation of the image Type Bibliographic Edition 1. publ. Year 2004 TOC Summary A study of images used in Protestant churches during the period of their definition by Martin Luther.. - In "The Reformation of the Image", Joseph Leo Koerner examines the images used in Protestant church services during the period of their definition by Martin Luther. Focusing on Lucas Cranach the Elder's famous altarpiece for the City Church in Wittenberg, and drawing on a mass of other Lutheran images - some of which have never been published before - he elucidates a founding moment in European history when words were made the model for all communication. In determining why images persisted despite their repudiation as empty idols, Koerner locates the conflict between verbal and visual communication in the emergence of a state-supported, state-supporting faith. Examining the images made for Luther's new religion of inward belief, he shows the process by which, through an interplay between pictures and words, subjects were trained to believe what someone else believed. This study of a decisive but little-known episode in the history of art explores how, by re-describing arguments made against them, visual images persist. BH ID BV018009011 Link EPIC Open Data ID BVB01-010781477

Name	Koerner, Joseph Leo
Type	100
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Title
Relationship	aut
Relator	Verfasser
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Name	Cranach, Lucas : 1472-1553 : Reformationsaltar
GND ID	4639547-7 : json
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Name	Stadtkirche Wittenberg
GND ID	4456857-5 : json
Wikidata	Q458821

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Name	704.948209031
Type	082
Tag	082
Scheme	ddc
Edition	22

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