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Who Said It?
100

Luther infamously was said to have pinned this list of complaints on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral

95 Theses
100

This painter, deeply tied to the Antwerp economy, produced scenes of markets and butcher stalls

Aertsen
100

This work, often considered the first "Lutheran" altarpiece, based its designs on a Cranach print

Schneeberg Altarpiece

100

This artist placed his biblical scenes not in the past, but in his contemporary Flemish world

Bruegel

100

"The viral image is both mobile and mutable, distinctive yet amenable to appropriation and reinterpretation."

Porras

200

French Protestants, though inspired mostly by Calvin's ideas, were referred to instead by this name

Huguenots

200
Tudor London attracted many merchants, part of this Northern European trading partnership

The Hanseatic League

200

This powerhouse of printed images in Antwerp produced copies of extant works as well as new original designs by artists like Bruegel

At the Four Winds

200

Holbein left Basel to work for this Tudor monarch

Henry VIII

200

"It is possible to reconstruct the values and interests of Breugel's associates because he belonged to an active and productive circle of artists, writers, and publishers."

Sullivan

300

A former friend of Luther's, this German reformer took a much more hardline stance on images

Karlstadt 

300

The first art market set up in Antwerp is known by this name

Our Lady's Pand

300

This altarpiece by the famed printmaker Dürer is said to contain references to Luther's then-new ideas

Four Apostles

300

De Vos's painting of St. Michael the Archangel was installed in a cathedral in this city

Mexico City

300

"These objects of mass communication came under a variety of censorship laws."

Andersson

400

Although born in France and settled in Switzerland, this reformer's ideas led to iconoclastic riots in the Low Countries

John Calvin

400

This was the first truly international financial exchange in early modern Europe

The Bourse 

400

Works like this Cranach print, which contrasted papal luxury with Christ's humility, helped circulate Lutheran ideas

the Passional of Christ and the Antichrist

400

Luther firmly refused to renounce his beliefs in 1521 at a decisive meeting in this German town

Worms!

400

"Thus Bruegel was no erudite philospher creating finespun allegorical fantasies in the isolation of his studio"

Gibson
500

This Swiss reformer set off the riots that would send Holbein packing from Basel

Zwingli 

500
The Spanish Crown, set on reclaiming their economic powerhouse that was the Low Countries, retook the city in 1585 in this decisive event

The Fall of Antwerp

500

When De Vos' Archangel was printed, it bore many new signatures and inscriptions, including a dedication to this Catholic theologian and librarian

Montano

500

Palissy was imprisoned in this iconic location in Paris

The Bastille

500

"To choose painting as a profession in the middle of the sixteenth century cannot have been an easy decision"

Honig

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