MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546)
Contra Henricum Regem Angliae
1522RCIN 1053318
Luther was swift to publish this scathing response to Henry’s Assertio Septem Sacramentorum. The woodcut title page, attributed to the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553), indicates Luther’s opinion of his opponents: on the left, a jester blowing a wind instrument; on the right a fat cleric with the head of a pig.