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Law and Grace of Redemption
Peter Gottlandt1552
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
The pictorial schema of Law and Grace is one of the most enduring symbols of the new, Reform doctrine. In the center stands a tree with a withered side representing the Old Covenant on the left and a blossoming one for the Gospel of Christ on the right. On the left stand Moses and the prophets. On the right, beneath the budding green of the Gospel, John the Baptist points to Christ’s sacrificing his life as a promise of grace.
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- Title: Law and Grace of Redemption
- Creator: Peter Gottlandt
- Date Created: 1552
- Physical Dimensions: 14.9 × 20.6 cm
- Technique and Material: Copperplate engraving
- Provenance: Old inventory, acquired in 1888
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
- Inv.-No.: 97–1888
- 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. 31 / Michael Roth
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: 1501 Gotland, Sweden–1572 Weimar
- Artist Biography: The artist, born Peter Rodelstedt in the Swedish province of Gotland, was an assistant in the Cranach workshop in Wittenberg around 1537; he is thought to have been the only copperplate engraver in this extremely productive atelier. From 1553 to 1556 Gottlandt was the court painter of Duke Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony in Weimar, as the direct successor of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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