Albrecht D?rer

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This paper explores the life and work of Albrecht Durer, one of the great German painters of the Cinquecento, whose work was both influenced by and contributed to the spread of the Reformation throughout Germany. The author details Durer's personal history together with the historical developments in Germany and Christianity at the time. The paper also provides a detailed study of Durer's painting "The Four Apostles", which the author calls a culmination of his beliefs regarding the nature of God and the dignity of the human being.

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"The Germany of Durer's time was still burdened by the feudal system and by widespread illiteracy. A growing, prosperous middle class paved the way for the social, economic and religious revisions that would later be called the Reformation. Still, because of the lack of sufficient education, paintings were a remarkably important source of information for the general populace. Durer was a devotee of Luther and of his ideas of direct human connection to God, and thus Durer's work was an significant vehicle for the dissemination of Reformation ideology."

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