In 1483, Martin Luther, German religious reformer who began the Protestant Reformation, born.

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His ability to make the supernatural natural in his art emanated from counter-Reformation doctrines about making religious mystery tangible.

ECONOMIST: Caravaggio

Together, these artefacts maps, books, letters, medals, coins, armour as well as sculpture and pictures provide vritually direct access to the 16th century when Europe was in the grip of the ideological and religious struggle of the Counter-Reformation.

ECONOMIST: Spanish empire