File:Cut from Luther as Hercules Germanicus, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg

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English: Luther as Hercules Germanicus. Woodcut, Zentralbibliothek, Zürich.

Basel, where Hans Holbein worked and had his studio, was a leading centre for disseminating Reformation ideas, owing to the excellence and freedom of its presses. Most of the reformer Martin Luther's books were published there. At the time Holbein designed this print, he was working for both traditional patrons and for reformers. Comparing Luther to Hercules, the slayer of the many-headed hydra, he shows him slaying churchmen.
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Source Christian Müller; Stephan Kemperdick; Maryan Ainsworth; et al, Hans Holbein the Younger: The Basel Years, 1515–1532, Munich: Prestel, 2006, ISBN 9783791335803, p. 126.
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Hans Holbein the Younger  (1497/1498–1543)  wikidata:Q48319 s:it:Autore:Hans Holbein il Giovane q:it:Hans Holbein il Giovane
 
Hans Holbein the Younger
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Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Hans Holbein
Description -German painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1497 or 1498
date QS:P,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1498-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 between 7 October 1543 and 29 November 1543
date QS:P,+1543-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1543-10-07T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1543-11-29T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death Augsburg London
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Basel (1515-1526), Lucerne (1515-1526), Venice (1515), Bologna (1515), Florence (1515), Rome (1515), Venice (1517-1518), Bologna (1517-1518), Florence (1517-1518), Rome (1517-1518), London (1526-1528), Basel (1528-1532), London (1532-1543)
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Woodcut by Hans Herman.
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