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During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an estimated 97% of religious art in England during the English Civil War. Very few church paintings ...
The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, was the Catholic Church's effort to revive and truly reform Catholicism in Europe following the Protestant Reformation.
LACMA's newly opened “Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach” is a deeply absorbing show about the rise of Martin Luther and his influence on art.
The protest movement Luther launched 500 years ago revamped not only how Europe worshipped but how it drank. We'd call him the patron saint of beer except, well, he wouldn't like the "saint" part.