Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5156507
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
THOMAS MUNTZER.
Year
1701
Print run
Signed
Dimensions
26,2 x 15,2
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Theme
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Portrait Thomas Muntzer (1490-1525) standing in the middle of a battle, with a burning city in the background. Muntzer was a German evangelical theologian who broke with Luther's ideas and headed the Peasant Revolt of 1524. Etching and engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), after his own design. Published in: Arnold Godfried. "History of churches and ricocheting from the beginning of the New Testaments to the year onses Heeren 1688", Amsterdam, Sebastiaan Petzold, 1701, part 2, p. 21. Source; Rijksmuseum, 2014.

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