LUTE KO of a lute behind a table, on which are a vio- lin, music-book, a vase of flowers, and fruit. Good picture iu first manner. Formerly in the Giustiuiaui Gallery. Engraved by Po- dolinsky ; lithographed by H. Robillard. Gal. Imp. do 1'Hermitage. By Michelangelo da Caraucigrjio, Liechten- stein Gallery, Vienna. Young woman play- ing a lute. Good picture of first period. Engraved by Fr. John ; J. Bernard ; L. Beyer. Meyer, Kiinst-Lex., i. G22 ; Perger, Kunstschdtze Wiens, 4. By Caspar Netscher. See Sacrifice to Love. LUTEKO, GIOVANNI DI. See Dosvi. LUTHER BEFORE THE IMPERIAL DIET, August van Hi'i/th'n, Germanic Mu- seum, Nuremberg ; canvas, H. 10 ft. 3 in. x 7 ft. 5 in. A broad stone-staircase leads to the door of the assembly-hall at Worms, at the foot of which a crowd of people are kept back by two lanzkncclits ; on the laud- ing meet Luther and Fruudsberg, the lat- ter addressing the former while laying his hand on his shoulder ; above, at the en- trance, is a herald, at the head of other persons, announcing the Elector of Saxony, Frederick the Wise, who is just issuing from within ; at the left, beside the stone balus- trade, a large banner. Painted in 18GG. Kunst-Chronik, ii. 20 ; Bruno Meyer, Stu- dien u. Krit, 104, 228. LUTHER BURNING THE POPE'S BULL, Karl Friedrich Lessiny, Mr. Notte- boom, Antwerp. Luther, surrounded by students and his colleagues, before the El- ster Gate of Wittenberg, committing to the flames (Dec. 10, 1520) the bull of excom- munication which Pope Leo X. had issued against him, together with the canon law and the books of Eck and Emser, his oppo- nents. Painted in 1853. LUTHER AND ECK, DISPUTE BE- TWEEN, Julius Hubner, Dresden Gallery ; canvas, H. 10 ft. 9 in. x 20 ft. 3 in. Johann Mayr von Eck, canon of Eichstiidt, and vice- chancellor of the University of Ingolstadt, was an adversary of Luther and wrote notes upon the Reformer's theses. He met Lu- ther in the conferences at Augsburg and Leipsic, and failing to convince him went to Rome and obtained a papal bull against him. The picture represents the conference at Leipsic in 1519. Painted in 18G3-GG. Purchased in 18G7 for 9,000 thalers. By Karl Friedricli Li'sxiiiy, Carlsruhe Gallery ; canvas, H. 10 ft. x 14 ft. 8 in. A room at the Pleisseuburg in Leipsic : in the middle George, Duke of Saxony, the oppo- nent of the Reformation ; at his right, Bar- uim, Duke of Pomerauia, then Rector of Wittenberg University; to the right, Eck and his adherents, among whom is the court-jester of Duke George ; to the left, Luther ; behind him, his friend Bugcnhagen and the adherents of the Reformation, among whom are Melauchthon and Profes- sor Karlstadt. Painted in 18G7. LUTHER TRANSLATING THE BIBLE, Gustav Adolf Spanyenbery, National Gallery, Berlin ; canvas, II. G ft. 3 in. x 8 ft. 4 iu. ; signed, dated 1870. In his stud}' at Wit- tenberg the Reformer is seated at a table, pointing with his right hand to a passage of the book before him, while, demonstrating with his left, he is looking at an old rabbi who talks to him with lively gesticulations ; between the two, Johann Bugenhageu looks into Luther's text, and opposite to him, Justus Jonas, seen iu profile, is ga/.ing at- tentively at Luther ; behind the latter, Me- lauchthon and Riircr stand listening to the conversation, while in front of the table, Mathesius is seated, pen in hand, and turned towards the window, in the niche of which another Hebrew scholar is reading in a co- ( l cx ._Jordan (1885), i. 130. LUTI, BENEDETTO, Cavalicre, born in Florence iu 16GG, died in Rome in 1724. Florentine school ; pupil of Domeuico Gab- biani ; formed his style by study of many masters ; became one of the first painters of his time, and is called the last of the Flor- entine school. Clement XL entrusted him with important commissions and ennobled him. He painted in oil and fresco, made 115
