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In 1519, painter Lucas Cranach the Elder(1472-1553) was commissioned to create altarpieces for Naumburg Cathedral. But just a few decades later, in 1541, they were destroyed by radical Protestant iconoclasts who thought that having extravagant artworks such as these distracted the faithful from true piety.
Numerous sacred works of art were lost in the Middle Ages in a similar fashion. Only two parts of the work in the Naumburg Cathedral,…
