First posted August 22, 2006:
Do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do. Could the parallels between this 16th century painting of Martin Luther and the 1950's murder scene photograph be taken one weird, comical step...Beyond?
In the color plate of the predella Luther's face did look like that of Det. Pointer, but we needed a better picture of Luther to be sure. Taking Koerner's book down from the shelf and leafing through it no closeup could be found. Frustratingly, the images referenced in the index didn't turn one up either. Then, while methodically going through the book almost page-by-page there it was, on page 332. Opposite, The Great Reformer is shown side-by-side with Det. Pointer. The stern expression is almost identical, the eyebrows are similar, the nose is the same, the mouth is the same, the chin is the same.
Martin Luther had been reincarnated as a 1950's homicide dick.
-Benjamin Harris
Do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do. Could the parallels between this 16th century painting of Martin Luther and the 1950's murder scene photograph be taken one weird, comical step...Beyond?
In the color plate of the predella Luther's face did look like that of Det. Pointer, but we needed a better picture of Luther to be sure. Taking Koerner's book down from the shelf and leafing through it no closeup could be found. Frustratingly, the images referenced in the index didn't turn one up either. Then, while methodically going through the book almost page-by-page there it was, on page 332. Opposite, The Great Reformer is shown side-by-side with Det. Pointer. The stern expression is almost identical, the eyebrows are similar, the nose is the same, the mouth is the same, the chin is the same.
Martin Luther had been reincarnated as a 1950's homicide dick.
-Benjamin Harris
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