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 of a lute behind a table, on which are a violin, music-book, a vase of flowers, and fruit. Good picture in first manner. Formerly in the Giustiniani Gallery. Engraved by Podolinsky; lithographed by H. Robillard.—Gal. Imp. de l'Hermitage.

By Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna. Young woman playing a lute. Good picture of first period. Engraved by Fr. John; J. Bernard; L. Beyer.—Meyer, Künst-Lex., i. 622; Perger, Kunstschätze Wiens, 4.

By Caspar Netscher. See Sacrifice to Love.

LUTERO, GIOVANNI DI. See Dossi.

LUTHER BEFORE THE IMPERIAL DIET, August van Heyden, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; canvas, H. 10 ft. 3 in. × 7 ft. 5 in. A broad stone-staircase leads to the door of the assembly-hall at Worms, at the foot of which a crowd of people are kept back by two lanzknechts; on the landing meet Luther and Frundsberg, the latter addressing the former while laying his hand on his shoulder; above, at the entrance, is a herald, at the head of other persons, announcing the Elector of Saxony, Frederick the Wise, who is just issuing from within; at the left, beside the stone balustrade, a large banner. Painted in 1866.—Kunst-Chronik, ii. 20; Bruno Meyer, Studien u. Krit., 104, 228.

LUTHER BURNING THE POPE'S BULL, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Mr. Notteboom, Antwerp. Luther, surrounded by students and his colleagues, before the Elster Gate of Wittenberg, committing to the flames (Dec. 10, 1520) the bull of excommunication which Pope Leo X. had issued against him, together with the canon law and the books of Eck and Emser, his opponents. Painted in 1853.

LUTHER AND ECK, DISPUTE BETWEEN, Julius Hübner, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 10 ft. 9 in. × 20 ft. 3 in. Johann Mayr von Eck, canon of Eichstädt, and vice-chancellor of the University of Ingolstadt, was an adversary of Luther and wrote notes upon the Reformer's theses. He met Luther in the conferences at Augsburg and Leipsic, and failing to convince him went to Rome and obtained a papal bull against him. The picture represents the conference at Leipsic in 1519. Painted in 1863-66. Purchased in 1867 for 9,000 thalers.

By Karl Friedrich Lessing, Carlsruhe Gallery; canvas, H. 10 ft. × 14 ft. 8 in. A room at the Pleissenburg in Leipsic: in the middle George, Duke of Saxony, the opponent of the Reformation; at his right, Barnim, Duke of Pomerania, then Rector of Wittenberg University; to the right, Eck and his adherents, among whom is the court-jester of Duke George; to the left, Luther; behind him, his friend Bugenhagen and the adherents of the Reformation, among whom are Melanchthon and Professor Karlstadt. Painted in 1867.

LUTHER TRANSLATING THE BIBLE, Gustav Adolf Spangenberg, National Gallery, Berlin; canvas, H. 6 ft. 3 in. × 8 ft. 4 in.; signed, dated 1870. In his study at Wittenberg the Reformer is seated at a table, pointing with his right hand to a passage of the book before him, while, demonstrating with his left, he is looking at an old rabbi who talks to him with lively gesticulations; between the two, Johann Bugenhagen looks into Luther's text, and opposite to him, Justus Jonas, seen in profile, is gazing attentively at Luther; behind the latter, Melanchthon and Rörer stand listening to the conversation, while in front of the table, Mathesius is seated, pen in hand, and turned towards the window, in the niche of which another Hebrew scholar is reading in a codex.—Jordan (1885), i. 130.

LUTI, BENEDETTO, Cavaliere, born in Florence in 1666, died in Rome in 1724. Florentine school; pupil of Domenico Gabbiani; formed his style by study of many masters; became one of the first painters of his time, and is called the last of the Florentine school. Clement XI. entrusted him with important commissions and ennobled him. He painted in oil and fresco, made