![]() ![]() Note that three of his six daughters had successful careers as painters or art dealers. The cardinal was a friend and lavish patron of artists (notably of Cranach and Grünewald) and at first favored the reform of the Church demanded by the “Evangelicals” (so the Protestants were called in Germany), but ultimately he remained faithful to the Roman Catholic Church and took a stance as one of the most brilliant adversaries of Martin Luther (1483–1546).īorn at the time of the irresistible rise of printing (the Gutenberg Bible dates back to 1450) and the art of the woodcut that accompanied it, Simon Bening, a star of the school of Bruges (Belgium), performed the swan song of the miniature (a painting with lead-based pigments, “minium,” used to decorate manuscripts), taking this art to its highest artistic level before it disappeared. ![]() ![]() 1483–1561) by the powerful Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg (1490–1545), Archbishop of Mainz, a prince-elector and Archchancellor of the Germanic Holy Roman Empire. This Annunciation illustrates a prestigious illuminated manuscriptcommissioned around the year 1530 from Simon Bening (c. ![]()
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