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Summary

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon

Artist



Alternative names	Lucas Cranach
Description	-German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death	4 October 1472	16 October 1553
Location of birth/death	Kronach	Weimar
Work location	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file	: Q191748 VIAF: 49268177 ISNI: 0000000121319721 ULAN: 500115364 LCCN: n50020861 NLA: 35031951 WorldCat

Title

German:

Bildnis des Reformators Philipp Melanchthon

Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

Deutsch: Philipp Melanchthon (eigentlich Schwarzerd/Schwartzerdt), Humanist, Theologe, Reformator und "Praeceptor Germania, Professor für griechische Sprache in Wittenberg, Autor, Freund und enger Mitarbeiter Luthers und auch des Erasmus

Depicted people

Philipp Melanchthon

Date

1537

Medium

oil on beech wood

Dimensions

height: 35.9 cm (14.1 in); width: 23.3 cm (9.1 in)

Collection

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

	Native name	Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
	Location	Karlsruhe
	Coordinates	49° 00′ 42.84″ N, 8° 24′ 00″ E
	Established	1759
	Website	www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de
	Authority file	: Q658725 VIAF: 139030426 ISNI: 000000040565103X ULAN: 500300796 LCCN: n79074432 NLA: 36080876 WorldCat

Accession number

940

Inscriptions

Text bottom center:

"EFFIGIES PHIL: MELANCHTHONIS . ANN . AET .
XXX CZ LVCA CRONACHIO PICTORE .
. M . D XXXVII ."

Artist's insignia bottom right: winged serpent with dropped wings and date "M D XXXVII" (within inscription)

Notes

Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) Nr.: -

References

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, digitale Sammlung
Cranach Digital Archive
RKDimages, Art-work number 250125

Source/Photographer

1. Unknown source
2. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
3. Google Arts & Culture

Other versions

counterpart: Portrait of Georg Spalatin

Licensing

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	01:45, 19 February 2023	4,280 × 6,624 (11.43 MB)	Trzęsacz	again https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/wd/KgGffggD_j6e6Q
	07:05, 29 November 2016	2,201 × 3,375 (3.44 MB)	Trzęsacz	again, without underground/background
	07:00, 29 November 2016	2,246 × 3,417 (1.84 MB)	Trzęsacz	https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/bildnis-des-reformators-philipp-melanchthon/KgGffggD_j6e6Q
	23:45, 9 July 2013	1,383 × 2,126 (2.58 MB)	Oursana	upload from http://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/index.php?id=276
	15:22, 17 December 2005	645 × 999 (110 KB)	Torsten Schleese	Philipp Melanchthon von Lucas Cranach d. Ä. 1537 in Karlsruhe Category:Lucas Cranach d. Ä. Category:Philipp Melanchthon {{PD}}