{"id":6630,"date":"2010-10-06T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2010-10-06T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T10:00:36","slug":"cranachs-law-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/10\/cranachs-law-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranach&#8217;s Law &amp; Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I saw a reproduction of this print a long time ago in a church basement, and I was happy to stumble upon it in the Wikipedia Commons.  (It\u2019s in the public domain, so you could make big posters of this.)   It\u2019s Lucas Cranach\u2019s \u201cLaw &amp; Grace\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Cranachs-Law-Gospel-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6634\"><\/p>\n<p>Look closely at the details.  (Go <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cranach_Gesetz_und_Gnade_Gotha.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> for a larger version.)  What is Cranach showing artistically about both the Law and the Gospel?  <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a reproduction of this print a long time ago in a church basement, and I was happy to stumble upon it in the Wikipedia Commons. (It\u2019s in the public domain, so you could make big posters of this.) It\u2019s Lucas Cranach\u2019s \u201cLaw &amp; Grace\u201d: Look closely at the details. 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