“Martin Luther and the Power of the Image and the Word” Lecture by Dr. Charles T. Little
Charles Little , curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, poses for a portrait to be used on 82nd and 5th, a web feature. © 2013 MMA, photographed by Jackie Neale Chadwick
Thursday, October 19 at 7pm in OSilas Gallery
Capitalizing on Gutenberg’s revolutionary invention of movable type the Reformation message of Martin Luther also saw the great potential of the image. The lecture will focus on amazing artists, such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach, both masters of the print, who greatly facilitated the launch of the reform movement. Luther’s home town of Wittenberg suddenly became a hyper active center that changed much of Europe. Image and the Word very much made the northern Renaissance a reality.
