Illustrated Luther Bible
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There were 117 original woodcuts included in the 1534 edition issued by the Hans Lufft press in Wittenberg, created in the workshop of Lucas Cranach. Each is meticulously reproduced from a rare and sumptuous original copy, belonging to the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar.
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Plates
- Colored woodcut from the workshop of Cranach of the Whore of Babylon riding the Beast of the Apocalypse (controversially, wearing a Papal crown) from the illustrated Luther Bible[1] (1534)
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Reference
- Stephan Füssel, The Bible in Pictures: Illustrations from the Workshop of Lucas Cranach (2009), ISBN 978-3-8365-1814-7.
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See also
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