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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6 comments:

  1. KatyMarch 17, 2013 at 3:02 PM

    Is that a wart or a mole?

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  2. Jay WatsonMarch 17, 2013 at 3:50 PM

    Well, I like his hat, anyway :)

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    1. TimMarch 20, 2013 at 1:44 PM

      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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  3. Rev. Thomas C. Messer, SSPMarch 17, 2013 at 4:54 PM

    He doesn't scare me.

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  4. Rev. Joshua HayesMarch 18, 2013 at 9:11 AM

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

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  5. Michael L. Anderson, M.D., Ph.DMarch 19, 2013 at 11:14 PM

    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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