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AeTHERNA. IP^E SVAE MENTIS SIAWLACHRA. IVTHEFyS ExPKIMiTia' VVITVS CERA LVCAE OCaDVOS Fig. 210. Luther as a Monk, by Cranach, 1520 None of the portraits of Luther are very satisfactory. His friend Cranach was not, like Holbein the Younger, a great portrait painter. This cut shows the reformer when his revolt against the Church was just beginning. He was thirty-seven years old and still in the dress of an Augustinian friar, which he soon abandoned 583
