Lutheran Art
The difference between the Lutherans and the Roman Catholics: a woodcut by Lucas Cranach, the younger, around 1540 – Abendmahl der Protestanten und Höllensturz der Katholiken.
While the pope, cardinals, bishops, monks, and others on the right find themselves in the jaws of hell, the Lutherans on the left have preached to them from Martin Luther’s pulpit the gospel of Christ crucified from the open Bible, and the risen Lamb carrying his victorious Easter banner. The Lutherans also receive the genuine…
Read MoreThe Difference between the true Religion of Christ and the false, idolatrous Teaching of the Antichrist – Unterscheid zwischen der waren Religion Christi und falschen Abgöttischen lehr des Antichrists in den fürnemsten stücken
The Difference between the true Religion of Christ and the false, idolatrous Teaching of the Antichrist: a woodcut by Lucas Cranach, the younger, around 1545. The German title: Unterscheid zwischen der waren Religion Christi und falschen Abgöttischen lehr des Antichrists in den fürnemsten stücken. On the left Martin Luther in a pulpit preaches from…
Read MoreA woodcut by Hans Lufft depicting the Islamic army prophesied in Revelation 9:13-19.
The Elector Friedrich the Wise’s Prophetic Dream of Martin Luther.
The Elector’s dream
Read MoreLuther and the Open Bible, a painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach
The LCMS convention of 1956 at Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Protest at Spires
“Morning prayers in the family of Sebastian Bach.” A photogravure of a painting by Toby E. Rosenthal (1848-1917).
Rosenthal acquired the inspiration for his picture from a comment which Bach had made in a letter to a friend of his, Georg Erdmann, dated 28 October, 1730, announcing, “Of my first marriage, three sons and a daughter are living [Wilhelm Friedemann, age 19; Carl Philipp Emanuel, age 16; Johann Gottfried Bernhard, age 15;…
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