Old Masters · 1 Corinthians 2:2 · 5 October 2026 · 2 works
The Reformation Altarpiece
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For Reformation Day: two panels of the altarpiece in Luther's own church in Wittenberg.
A bare stone room, and in it only three things: on the left the congregation, on the right Luther in the pulpit, and between them the crucified Christ. Luther has one hand on the open Bible; with the other he points to the cross.
The Last Supper takes place at a round table in a hall that opens on to a Saxon landscape. Christ sits at the left, John leaning against him. At the right a servant hands the cup to one of the disciples, a bearded man in black.
