{"id":5564,"date":"2020-01-03T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2023-07-21T19:44:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:44:22","slug":"this-is-not-martin-luther-by-martin-lohrmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=5564","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is not Martin Luther&#8221;\u00a0by Martin Lohrmann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/not-luther-in-faiths-of-the-world-1858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"381\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For some years I have wondered about the image shown here, which has recently been featured in academic and church resources. It serves, for instance, as the cover of Martin Luther\u2019s Basic<br>Theological Writings, Third Edition,1 and as the picture accompanying the entry \u201cLuther, A Biography\u201d in The Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation.2 It is commonly labeled in online images of Martin Luther, if it is attributed at all, as an 1833 engraving of Luther, based on a painting by King Henry VIII\u2019s court painter Hans Holbein the Younger (1497\u20131543). Having seen many Luther portraits\u2014especially paintings by Luther\u2019s friend and collaborator Lucas Cranach the Elder\u2014I never thought this one looked like other images of Luther from the sixteenth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lq-demo.com\/pdf\/lohrmann_lq_33_4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CLICK H<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/pdf\/lohrmann_lq_33_4.pdf\"><strong>E<\/strong><\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lq-demo.com\/pdf\/lohrmann_lq_33_4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RE<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;to read more of the article that shows this now easily available image of &#8220;Luther&#8221; is actually Bishop Stokesley of London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original painting of Bishop Stokesley (attributed to Hans Holbein) can be viewed in the online collection of the Royal Trust Collection:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rct.uk\/collection\/662313\/john-stokesley-bishop-of-london.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.rct.uk\/collection\/662313\/john-stokesley-bishop-of-london.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some years I have wondered about the image shown here, which has recently been featured in academic and church resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}