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Luther as Saint Jerome
Monogrammist W S (Wolfgang Stuber)c. 1580
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
Consciously following the example of Dürer’s master engraving of 1514, in his mirror-reversed copy Stuber adopts the parallels between Luther’s work as a translator and mediator of the Bible and the work of Saint Jerome. He gave the famous features of Martin Luther to the studying saint. Even the cardinal’s hat adorning the back wall is unchanged. The only thing that is missing is the sleeping dog of Dürer’s image.
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- Title: Luther as Saint Jerome
- Creator: Monogrammist W S (Wolfgang Stuber)
- Date Created: c. 1580
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 14.1 × 13.1 cm Plate: 13.9 × 12.9 cm
- Technique and Material: Copperplate engraving
- Provenance: Von Nagler Collection
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
- Inv.-No.: 43–10
- 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. 26 / Michael Roth
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: active last third of sixteenth century
- Artist Biography: Stuber, who is hardly documented at all, was active as a copperplate engraver in Nuremberg. Graphic works by Albrecht Dürer and Jost Amman were copied or varied by him. The slightly more than thirty works in his oeuvre have a monogram with W whose right diagonal is intertwined by an S. The only securely dated sheets are from 1587 and 1588.
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