The cell and the desk

Martin Luther: 1483 – 1546 translated the bible from Latin to German. I've tried to find a photo of his monks cell as well as the desk he used to do this work. I've searched the internet, but can find no such photos. Does anyone know where I can find photos of these?

@mchill said
Martin Luther: 1483 – 1546 translated the bible from Latin to German. I've tried to find a photo of his monks cell as well as the desk he used to do this work. I've searched the internet, but can find no such photos. Does anyone know where I can find photos of these?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Here maybe, if you scroll down.

http://thaumazein-albert.blogspot.com/2014/05/luther-in-erfurt.html

@mchill said
Martin Luther: 1483 – 1546 translated the bible from Latin to German. I've tried to find a photo of his monks cell as well as the desk he used to do this work. I've searched the internet, but can find no such photos. Does anyone know where I can find photos of these?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Here maybe, if you scroll down.

http://thaumazein-albert.blogspot.com/2014/05/luther-in-erfurt.html

@divegeester said
I don’t think they had cameras in the 16th century.

@wolfgang59 said
Camera obscura was a popular tool from mid 1500s onwards!

@divegeester said
Yeah I wondered if my comment was premature; the Chinese had been playing with basic camera technology around then too.

Anyway, the furniture depicted in the website looks very contemporary to me. Perhaps it would pass off as 16th century joinery in parts of the US, but we saw that in the uk there would be hysterics.

@suzianne said
But desks are desks, there's not much to the design. A writing desk of any age would be made to accommodate writing, with a smooth top, presumably all of one piece.

They could also be replicas.