Sztuka jako narzędzie konfesjonalizacji ewangelickiej w Prusach Królewskich i Książęcych
Art as a tool for evangelical confessionalization in Royal and Ducal Prussia

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the place of art in the confessionalisation process that took place in the area of Lutheranism and Calvinism in Royal Prussia and Ducal Prussia. At the time of Martin Luther’s introduction of the reforms, print became the most important medium for the spread of the reformer’s ideas. Thus, the image was relegated to a secondary role and its existence in the church interior was treated in terms of adiaphora. Calvinism rejected the creation and hanging of any images with a figure God in them and Lutheranism accepted their existence as a didactic tool (especially as to inherited medieval altars) and an element to help visualise the confessional distinctiveness of Evangelicals in relation to Catholics. The text presents examples of the use of religious paintings or portraits of Luther to delineate such distinctiveness.

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