Full Description
After the Reformation the successful painter Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) dedicated himself to spreading revelations on the nature of God. Lautensack was besides Dürer the only German artist who wrote against the iconoclasts, and he believed that he as a painter could explain the images of Revelation better than theologians like Luther. He presented his insights in hundreds of highly sophisticated diagrams that display a wide range of material accessible to an urban craftsman, from the vernacular Bible to calendar illustrations. This study is the first monograph on this extraordinary man, it presents a corpus of his surviving works, analyzes his peculiar theology of the image and locates the elements of his diagrams in the visual world of the Reformation period.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Lautensack's Manuscripts and Tracts
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Paul Lautensack's Life and Work
I. Bamberg
II. Nuremberg, 1528-37
III. Nuremberg, 1538-58
2. Lautensack as Theological Author
I. Lautensack's Calling and Authority
II. Lautensack and the Reformation
III. Lautensack and Iconoclasm
3. Lautensack's Diagrams: An Introduction
I. Grids
II. Biblical Quotations
III. Lists of Names
IV. Alphabets
V. Single Words
VI. Images
4. Lautensack's Early Diagrams
I. The Evangelists
II. Drawings for the Pater Noster
III. Drawings for the Creed
IV. Patriarchs and Apostles
V. Pater Noster and Credo in Manuscripts L, A and K
VI. Additional Tracts in Manuscripts L, A and K
5. Lautensack's Later Diagrams
I. Circular Diagrams
II. Four-Part Divisions
III. Celestial Prodigies
IV. Innovations in the Layout from the 1540s and 1550s
V. The Limbs of Christ and Other New Subject-Matter in the 1540s and 1550s
6. The Reception of Lautensack's Works
I. Peter Dell's Relief
II. The Manuscript Tradition
III. Abraham Meffert
IV. Pseudo-Weigel
V. Paul Kaym and Abraham von Franckenberg
VI. The Rosicrucian Movement and the 1619 Edition
VII. Georg Christoph Brendel
Conclusion
Appendix: Catalogue of Drawings, Manuscripts and Printed Editions
Autograph Drawings
1. Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, KdZ 842-73, 1033-34 (D)
Autograph Manuscripts
2. Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, 4o Cod. 91 (A)
3. Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Hs. 79 C 4 (K)
4. London, British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, 1923,0712.2 (L)
5. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 3,147 (N)
Copies of Autograph Tracts
6. Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, RB.Msc. 166 (B)
7. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. germ. fol. 519 (S)
8. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer
Kulturbesitz, Ms. germ. quart. 1,957 (T)
9. Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, theol. 1,231 (missing) (H)
10. London, The Warburg Institute, FHH 198 (W)
11. Halle, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 23 B 11 (1) and 23 B 11 (2) (U and V)
12. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. germ. fol. 1,179 (Q)
13. Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, ms. VCQ 44 (R)
14. Erfurt, Bibliothek des Evangelischen Ministeriums im Augustinerkloster Erfurt, Msc. 13 (E)
Meffert's Edition of Lautensack (-m)
15. Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, RB.Msc. 167 (Bm)
16. Breslau, Stadtbibliothek, R292 (Cm, lost)
17. København, Kongelige Bibliotek, Thott 40 2o (Km)
18. Lübeck, Stadtbibliothek, Ms. theol. germ. 98 (Lm)
19. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 4,416-18 (Mm)
20. Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cpv 12,608 (Vm)
21. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 35 Blank. (Wm)
Meffert's Comments on Lautensack (-s)
22. Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, ms. VCQ 1, fols. 64v-70r (Rn)
23. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 778 Helmst., fols. 12r-21r (Wn)
Kaym's Edition of Lautensack (-k)
24. København, Kongelige Bibliotek, Thott 39 2o (Kk)
Anonymous Tracts Inspired by Lautensack (-b)
25. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. germ. fol. 1,070 (Sb)
26. Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, theol. 1,235 (Hb)
Further Manuscripts about Lautensack (-s)
27. Nürnberg, Stadtarchiv, Rep. E 1 / 931 (olim Lautensack 54 30) (Ns)
28. Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Car I 262, fols. 68r-76r (Zs)
Texts Incorrectly Associated with Lautensack (-x)
29. Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, theol. 1,892, pp. 607-699 (Hx)
30. Kassel, Hessische Landesbibliothek, 4o Ms. chem. 72, fols. 302v-6r (Kx)
Lost Manuscripts
Printed Editions
1. Paulus Lautensack, Offenbahrung Jesu Christi (Franckfurt am Mayn: Jennis, 1619, prints o, t, g and a)
2. Tracts in the Unschuldige Nachrichten (Leipzig: Braun, 1711, print u)
Bibliography
Index of Names and Places
Index of Biblical References
Index of Subjects
Illustrations
