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The Artist's Lament In 1528. Exile, Printing, And The Reformation, Alison Stewart
The Artist's Lament In 1528. Exile, Printing, And The Reformation, Alison Stewart
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity
The plight of painters and other artists was not an easy one when the Reformation made inroads into German-speaking lands. Commissions for Catholic subjects and altarpieces dried up as a result of Lutheran influence. Two laments dating from the early Reformation period address the artist's situation. Both are brief, date from 1526 and 1528, and appear in different contexts - one in a letter of introduction and the other in a printed pamphlet. The first concerns the painter Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98- 1543) whose portraits painted for King Henry VIII and his court indicate that the pictorial genre of …