User:Jfhutson/Law and Gospel (Cranach)

Law and Gospel or Law and Grace is a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, painted circa 1529.

Versions

The painting has been reproduced in many media, but all derive from two panel paintings, both painted around 1529. One is in Gotha, Germany, and the other in Prague, Czech Republic.^[1] The versions can be distinguished by the positions a nude human figure. In the Prague version, this man is shown seated under a tree. In the Gotha version, the same figure can be seen in both the right and left sides of the painting, one being driven to condemnation and the other to the cross.^[2]

Description

Notes and sources

References

^ Noble 2009, p. 29.
^ Weimer 2004, pp. 398–399.

Sources

Noble, Bonnie (2009). Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation. Lanham, Massachusetts: University Press of America.
Weimer, Christoph (Winter 2004). "Luther and Cranach on Justification in Word and Image". Lutheran Quarterly (in German). 14 (4). Translated by Wilhelm C Linss.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)

[FOOTNOTENoble200929-1] Noble 2009, p. 29.

[FOOTNOTEWeimer2004398–399-2] Weimer 2004, pp. 398–399.

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