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#Inktober Day 25: Matthew Henry
-Protestant minister in the late 1600s.
-Best known for his massive "Commentary on the Whole Bible."
@OliveTreeBible allows you to read the Bible along with Henry's commentary open next to the bible app. It's free and a great help in Bible study!
If you were a rich Saxon family during the Protestant reformation & you wanted a portrait of your daughter that would evade the censorship of Martin Luther - the studio of Lucas Cranach the Elder offered a solution. Have her pose as Salome with the head of St.John the Baptist.
12 June 1549: Eight year-old Lady Jane Seymour writes #otd to #Protestant theologians Martin Buber & Paul Fagius thanking them for the gift of books they'd sent. In 1557 the bodies of Bucer & Fagius would be exhumed in #Cambridge & respectively burnt for heresy (GAP/BM/SJC)
The torture of St Barbara - a detail from Lorenzo Lotto's frescoes of the Cappella Suardi near lake Iseo. In this, her parents look on - their dress is very telling - father is in traditional Turkish dress while her mother wears the hat of a Northern protestant!
Stunning stained glass: beautiful #earlymodern glasswork found in cesspit, perhaps thrown away after conversion of rich Catholic family to Protestantism. https://t.co/IWT4vceAau
Un mercenaire japonais au Pays-Bas en pleine guerre catholiques contre protestants, à la recherche de l'assassin de son maître: Issak https://t.co/nYIL4OlQOC @ki_oon_Editions @DS_style #manga #seinen #issak
On this day in 1517, Martin Luther posts the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
Composer #RichardWagner after he saw #Renoir's portrait of him: "Ah! It's true I look like a Protestant minister!"
White Protestant Straight Man! Everything that's wrong with this country. #WhiteProtestantStraightMan
On this day in 1517, Martin Luther posts the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.