Sunday, March 17, 2013

Best Woodcut Portrait EVER

Beware, Lutheran! Caspar Hedio sees you sneaking up on him and he is itching for a fight.


Portrait of Caspar Hedio (Zwinglian preacher at Strasbourg), by Hans Baldung Grien, 1543. 
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

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    1. But it looks like he's wearing it backwards. Then again, that may be where folks in our day got the idea.

      Tim Landskroener

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  2. It's like he know he's preaching false doctrine.

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  3. I'm more familiar with the perusing of ink-blots than wood-cuts, but to me this guy's assuming Dr. Melanie Klein's (1952) "paranoid-schizoid position," hands down.

    Herr Doktor
    Society of St. Polycarp

    "Your bill is in the mail."

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