Protestantism

===Arts===
{{further|Reformation#Music and art}}
The arts have been strongly inspired by Protestant beliefs.

[[Martin Luther]], [[Paul Gerhardt]], [[George Wither]], [[Isaac Watts]], [[Charles Wesley]], [[William Cowper]], and other authors and composers created well-known church hymns.

Musicians like [[Heinrich Schütz]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], [[George Frideric Handel]], [[Henry Purcell]], [[Johannes Brahms]], [[Philipp Nicolai]] and [[Felix Mendelssohn]] composed great works of music.

Prominent painters with Protestant background were, for example, [[Albrecht Dürer]], [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], [[Lucas Cranach the Younger]], [[Rembrandt]], and [[Vincent van Gogh]].

World literature was enriched by the works of [[Edmund Spenser]], [[John Milton]], [[John Bunyan]], [[John Donne]], [[John Dryden]], [[Daniel Defoe]], [[William Wordsworth]], [[Jonathan Swift]], [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe]], [[Friedrich Schiller]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[Matthew Arnold]], [[Conrad Ferdinand Meyer]], [[Theodor Fontane]], [[Washington Irving]], [[Robert Browning]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Emily Brontë]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[Thomas Stearns Eliot]], [[John Galsworthy]], [[Thomas Mann]], [[William Faulkner]], [[John Updike]], and many others.
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File:Martin-Luther-Denkmal, Worms.JPG|[[Luther Monument (Worms)|Luther Monument in Worms]], which features some of the [[Reformation]]'s crucial figures
File:ReformationsdenkmalGenf2.jpg|The [[Reformation Wall|International Monument to the Reformation]] in [[Geneva]], Switzerland.
File:Albrecht Dürer - Adoration of the Trinity (Landauer Altar) - Google Art Project.jpg|The ''Adoration of the Trinity'' by [[Albrecht Dürer]]
File:Lucas Cranach d. Ä. - The Lamentation of Christ - The Schleißheim Crucifixion - Alte Pinakothek.jpg|The ''Crucifixion of Christ'' by [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]]
File:Lucas Cranach d. J. - Adam and Eve - WGA05729.jpg|''Adam and Eve'' by [[Lucas Cranach the Younger]]
File:Huguenot lovers on St. Bartholomew's Day.jpg|''A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge'' by [[John Everett Millais]].
File:Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn - Return of the Prodigal Son - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[The Return of the Prodigal Son]]'', a 1669 portrait by [[Rembrandt]]
File:Vincent van Gogh - The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[The Church at Auvers]]'', 1890. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, by [[Vincent van Gogh]].
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