Catholic and Protestant Preaching

 

This picture is by Georg Pencz.  He was a sixteenth century engraver, painter and printmaker.  Here he is depicting the styles of Protestant and Catholic preachers.  Note that the Protestant Preacher on the left is holding a Bible in his hand.  The Catholic preacher isn't holding anything.

This time in history, most of the people couldn't read, so the Protestant Preacher is reading it to them and I assume explaining his interpretation of it.  I also assume that the Catholic Preacher is preaching during the Mass, which means that the scriptures have already been read, and he is giving a homily.

The Protestant Preacher relies on the Bible, alone.  The Catholic Preacher also relies on the Bible, but also Catholic Magisterium, the Catechism, history, sacraments, and over two thousand years of history (at that time over one thousand years).

• Title: Protestant and Catholic Preaching, Broadsheet
• Creator: Georg Pencz
• Date Created: 1529
• Physical Dimensions: 16.4 × 37.9 cm
• Technique and Material: Woodcut and letterpress
• Provenance: Old inventory, acquired prior to 1877
• Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
• Inv.-No.: 643–7
• ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-018511
• External Link: 
  http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/kupferstichkabinett/home.html
• Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett/ Dietmar Katz; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 32 / Michael Roth
• Catalogue: 
  https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
• Artist Dates: c. 1500–1550 Leipzig or Breslau (Wrocław)
• Artist Biography: The painter, printmaker, and journeyman in Dürer’s workshop was expelled from Nuremberg, along with the Beham brothers, as “godless” in 1525, but in 1532 he was appointed municipal painter there. His sometimes Titianesque portraits and his ceiling paintings reminiscent of the frescoes in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua suggest that Pencz traveled to Italy. Having been appointed court painter by Albrecht of Prussia, he died en route to Königsberg.