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Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany
From the mid-sixteenth century, broadsheets depicting wondrous, celestial events circulated widely across the Holy Roman Empire against the backdrop of Reformation.
Pictorial representation and report of a northern lights phenomenon that moved from Ebersberg via Zell, Eltmann, Bamberg, Staffelstein, Lichtenfels toward Plassenburg in Vogtland on December 28, 1560. The author of the text compares the northern lights with the heavenly glow above the Temple of Jerusalem and interprets the event as a divine sign of the end-time fire of the impending Last Judgement. Sky apparition over Altdorf with a red and a yellow sun, a siege scene depicted as a black cloud, and spots of light rendered as colored hats, created in Strasbourg, 1578.
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