Denominational image

A denomination image , even confession image , is a time of confessionalization created image that supported the unity of the developing Protestant denomination.

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An essential feature is the representation of a commitment (Latin language: confessio) to life in the church according to Martin Luther . This documents the Protestant faith of contemporaries in the 16th to 18th centuries and illustrates it in an educational way. The Augsburg Confession is visually taken up and confirmed.

A denominational image is a visualization of the word and in it comparable to the liturgical ceremony, as both convey the salvation history of Christ . The image serves to transmit essential elements of the faith and to stabilize the denomination newly developed by the Reformation .

The denomination image forms its own icon class .

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A distinction is made between two forms, although representatives of the imperial estates are prominent persons in both types . One type is reminiscent of the handover of the certificate to Charles V in 1530 and shows scenes of a practical worship service, while the other type is about the salvation work of Christ and shows biblical scenes. Such images were permissible among Luther's followers despite the Reformation iconoclasm , since they represented Reformation beliefs.

Famous works

Panel paintings

• Denomination picture in Kasendorf by Andreas Herneisen
• Denomination image of the town church St. Blasius (Bopfingen)
• Denomination picture in Jungingen (Ulm)
• Denomination picture (St. John's Church Schweinfurt)
• Denomination picture (Weißenburg)

Mural

• Last Judgment of St. Laurentius Church (Dassel)
• Fresco at Parz Castle

Epitaphs

• Princely epitaph from 1617 of the Georgenkirche (Eisenach)

literature

• Wolfgang Brückner : Lutheran Confessional Paintings from the 16th to the 18th Century - the illustrated Confessio Augustana, 2007
• Gertrud Schiller : Iconography of Christian Art - The Church, 1976, pp. 154–161
• Angelika Marsch: Pictures of the Augsburg Confession and its anniversaries, 1980

Web links

Commons : Denominational Image  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Susanne Wegmann: The Visible Faith - The Image in the Lutheran Churches of the 16th Century, 2016, p. 103
2. ↑ iconclass , accessed on January 16, 2020
3. ↑ Frank Büttner, Gabriele Wimböck (ed.): The image as authority: the normative power of the image, 2004, p. 304
4. ↑ Reinhard Schwarz: Reformation and Imperial City - Luther in Augsburg, 1996, p. 109
5. ↑ Schöllkopf, Wolfgang: Evangelisch im Bild - the denominational image in the Evangelical Church Peter and Paul in Ulm-Jungingen from 1711 as an example of Protestant image culture, in: Blätter für Württembergische Kirchengeschichte, 114, 2014, pp. 70–84
6. ↑ Renata von Poser-Max: The St.Laurentius Church in Dassel and its Lutheran representation of the Last Judgment (1577), in: Diözese Hildesheim 59, 1991, pp. 19-37
7. ↑ Bernd Euler-Rolle: Discovery and preservation of the Renaissance frescoes at the Landschloss Parz, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege 41, 1987, pp. 155–165
8. ↑ Susanne Wegmann: The Visible Faith - The Image in the Lutheran Churches of the 16th Century, 2016, p. 100