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/ETHERNA IPSE. SVAE MENTIS SIMVLACHRA EXFFLVUTXT W1XVS CERA LVCAE OCCIDVOS M E> x-x: 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
