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Description: | This portrait is a 'typical commercial sixteenth century Reformer portrait' like those of Zwingli (EU 209 ) and Beza (EU 208) (Talbot Rice, 1957). The artist may have copied the woodcut of Bucer in Theodore Beza's Icones, published in 1580, which contains portraits of the reformers. Bucer was born in Schlettstadt in the Lower Alsace and entered the Dominican order at the age of fourteen. He was converted to Protestantism by Luther and by the writings of Erasmus. Bucer had a strong connection with England: Henry VIII consulted him on the divorce question; on arrival in England he was received by Edward VI, who made him Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: German School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8389... | Go to resource |
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