The demand for Luther’s portrait was insatiable. In the 1520s there was a wide variety of likenesses. He was thin, accompanied by doves and halos reminiscent of Catholic saints in a deliberate effort to highlight his role as saint. As Luther began to fill out in the 1530s, Cranach the Elder established an imagery that dominated the 16th century. Luther was now a married man (with children) who attacked monasticism. Woodcuts, oil paintings, and etchings presented him in juxtaposition with stout rulers or in contrast with thin reformers. It was a new kind of imagery for a religious figure who represented a different approach to the flesh.