| Yet, being multipartite, they call to mind the predella panels of early Renaissance altarpieces. |
| Luther's unprecedented reconstruction of church imaging was innovatory in proposing the form that altarpieces should take. |
| Simultaneously, Cranach continued to produce altarpieces and devotional images reflecting Lutheran theology. |
| Its quality of the plain and unadorned could rake the form of words only as in the various text altarpieces illustrated here. |
| They painted almost exclusively altarpieces in a dramatic late Baroque style. |
| Because of Calvinist proscription of the use of images in worship, patronage for altarpieces and private devotional objects virtually dried up. |
