Mural painting by Eugene Savage of the Yale School of Fine Arts. The painting is of Athene in white depicted warding off two devils, symbolic of malevolent influence and disorder. The flying figures at the right represent divinity, the sciences and…
In this preface to his key work On the Freedom of the Christian, Luther appeals directly to the Pope in his own defense and to address the failures of the Church. Luther is variously obsequious and brash in making his case:"Among those monstrous…