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From the Archives: Dürer and the Lutheran Image

The best of Dürer's late portraits apotheosize a group of leading converts to the Reformation in Germany, all close to Luther himself as well as to the artist. In a radically simplified style, Dürer a…

• By
  Donald B. Kuspit
• Mar 29, 2017 11:44 am

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The Task of Art

Three exhibitions marking the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s “95 Theses” celebrate the bold, sometimes ruthless monk who helped launch both the Protestant Reformation and a new stripped-down sty…

• By
  Christopher P. Heuer
• Mar 24, 2017 2:53 pm

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The Color That Wasn’t a Color

In art, black was never basic

• By
  Ann Landi
• Nov 24, 2011 9:00 am