Divine diagrams : : the manuscripts and drawings of Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) / / by Berthold Kress.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word, Volume 34
• VerfasserIn: Kress, Berthold,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; Volume 34.; Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (622 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

After the Reformation the successful painter Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) dedicated himself to spreading revelations on the nature of God. Lautensack was besides Dürer the only German artist who wrote against the iconoclasts, and he believed that he as a painter could explain the images of Revelation better than theologians like Luther. He presented his insights in hundreds of highly sophisticated diagrams that display a wide range of material accessible to an urban craftsman, from the vernacular Bible to calendar illustrations. This study is the first monograph on this extraordinary man, it presents a corpus of his surviving works, analyzes his peculiar theology of the image and locates the elements of his diagrams in the visual world of the Reformation period.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- Introduction -- Paul Lautensack’s Life and Work -- Lautensack as Theological Author -- Lautensack’s Diagrams: An Introduction -- Lautensack’s Early Diagrams -- Lautensack’s Later Diagrams -- The Reception of Lautensack’s Works -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Catalogue of Drawings, Manuscripts and Printed Editions -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Biblical References -- Index of Subjects -- Illustrations.