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Protestant and Catholic Preaching, Broadsheet
Georg Pencz1529
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
Pencz depicts the sermon practices of both denominations. On the left, a gaunt preacher is reading the word of God from the Bible; on the right, a stout monk is extemporizing without a text from an ornamented pulpit. It is all taking place in one room like a disputation. The accompanying text by the Nuremberg poet Hans Sachs calls for a personal decision concerning the form of preaching.
Details
- Title: Protestant and Catholic Preaching, Broadsheet
- Creator: Georg Pencz
- Date Created: 1529
- Physical Dimensions: 16.4 × 37.9 cm
- Technique and Material: Woodcut and letterpress
- Provenance: Old inventory, acquired prior to 1877
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
- Inv.-No.: 643–7
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-018511
- External Link: http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/kupferstichkabinett/home.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett/ Dietmar Katz; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 32 / Michael Roth
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1500–1550 Leipzig or Breslau (Wrocław)
- Artist Biography: The painter, printmaker, and journeyman in Dürer’s workshop was expelled from Nuremberg, along with the Beham brothers, as “godless” in 1525, but in 1532 he was appointed municipal painter there. His sometimes Titianesque portraits and his ceiling paintings reminiscent of the frescoes in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua suggest that Pencz traveled to Italy. Having been appointed court painter by Albrecht of Prussia, he died en route to Königsberg.
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