Metallic Records of Martin Luther: A Paper Read at the Celebration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Luther, Held at Toronto, November 10, 1883 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Scadding, Henry

9780282853242: Metallic Records of Martin Luther: A Paper Read at the Celebration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Luther, Held at Toronto, November 10, 1883 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10 : 0282853243 ISBN 13 : 9780282853242

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Metallic Records of Martin Luther: A Paper Read at the Celebration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Luther, Held at Toronto, November 10, 1883

On the medals presented to us in J uncker's book the image and superscription of Luther, of course, continually appear. The beads of the Reformer, however, as seen on the. Medals do not, with any closeness, agree with one another. Artists and engravers seem to have allowed themselves to form their own ideals of the man. Most of us, I suppose, have a Luther pictured in our minds, just as we have _a Shakespeare. In both cases the variations in the current portraits are quite' considerable. Nevertheless there are characteris tics enough common to all of them to enable us to recognize almost immediately any portrait or bust or sta intended for either Shakespeare or Luther. Differences to the contrary not withstanding, we know Luther on these medals by his blufi', good tempered, powerful, honest face 5 his leonine eye; his taurine neck and massive shoulders his heavy scholastic gown. Occasionally the head is extensively tonsured, and the monk's cowl appears thrown back. Sometimes the countenance is seen in profile and sometimes as turned towards the spectator. In the later medals the features are more emaciated, and furrowed over with lines of thought and patient endurance of suffering.

The first medal in which I shall endeavor to raise an interest, under the disadvantage of not being able, unfortunately, to exhibit the object itself, is one shewing on the obverse a head of Luther with face turned towards the beholder. The aspect is youthful. The epigraph or superscription at the margin is: Dr. Martin Luther of Eisleben. Doctor Martinus Lutherus Eislebensis.

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