491st Anniversary of Martin Luther's excommunication
Luther in 1533, painting by Lucas Cranach. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a German Catholic friar, university professor, theologian, founder of the Protestant Reformation and the Lutheran Church.
- Luther in 1533, painting by Lucas Cranach. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a German Catholic friar, university professor, theologian, founder of the Protestant Reformation and the Lutheran Church.
- Portrait of Martin Luther as an Augustinian Monk, painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder (16th century).
- "The Ninety-Five Theses" (full title: The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences or in Latin: Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum).
- The papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem (It Pleases the Roman Pontiff).
- Luther Before the Diet of Worms, painting by Anton von Werner (1843-1915).
- "Frederick III the Wise, Prince-Elector of Saxony", (1463-1525), engraving by Albrecht Dürer (1524).
- Portrait of Charles V in an armchair (Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire (1500-1558)), painting traditionally attributed to Titian, today attributed to Lambert Sustris (1548).
- Wartburg Castle, Eisenach, Germany (Photo courtesy of Robert Scarth (2006)).
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