From Matthias Gerung to Nikodem Zubrzycki: Apocalypse Illustrations in Chernihiv New Testament (1717) and Further Cross-Border Lutheran Imagery Use

Reformation Lutheran imagery that circulated in Ukrainian art in the 17th-18th centuries, was copied and transformed here. Orthodox artists did not only use the compositions, elements and symbols of the Reformation prototypes, but also transferred their dogmatics. Nikodem Zubrzycki and his associates introduced satirical allegorical ideas of Reformation Commentary to the Apocalypse expressed through the imagery of Matthias Gerung in their woodcuts for Chernihiv New Testament (1717). T hese visual ideas crossed the borders, Lutheran imagery being used and transformed by the Orthodox artists.