Das Zeitalter der Reformation (The Age of the Reformation), a painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach
Wilhelm von Kaulbach depicts how all science and art, music and painting, learning and printing, flourished during the 1500’s and thereafter because Luther stood in the center of it all with the open Bible. Consult 2nd Corinthians 3:17: “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
“Among great benefactors, Martin Luther is one of the most illustrious. He headed the protestant Reformation. This movement is so completely linked with literature, the religion, the education, the prosperity, yea, even the political history of Europe and America that it is the most important and interesting of all modern historical changes” (Dr. John Lord).