Bust portrait shown from the right in three-quarter profile against a green background. Luther wears a black robe under a gown of the same colour, a red stripe and a white collar are visible at the neckline. He has short grey hair and holds a book in his hands.
[Wartburg-Stiftung,
Bust portrait shown from the right in three-quarter profile against a green background. Luther wears a black robe under a gown of the same colour, a red stripe and a white collar are visible at the neckline. He has short grey hair and holds a book in his hands.
[Wartburg-Stiftung, revised 2013]
- Attribution
- Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
| Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Wartburg-Stiftung revised 2013] |
- Production date
- 1546
Production date
| 1546 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 65.1 x 51.2 x 0.4 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 65.1 x 51.2 x 0.4 cm
[cda 2013]
- Signature / Dating
Dated on left edge: '1546'
Signature / Dating
Dated on left edge: '1546'
- Inscriptions and Labels
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at the top edge: 'D.MARTINVS LVTHERVS.
Nascebatur Islebiae Anno at nato Saluatore M.CCCC.LXXXIII. Vndecimo ante Calendas Nouembris Hora X …Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- at the top edge:
'D.MARTINVS LVTHERVS.
Nascebatur Islebiae Anno at nato Saluatore M.CCCC.LXXXIII. Vndecimo ante Calendas Nouembris Hora X post meridiem.'
- at the right:
'Sparsa Evangelii rur Sus noua Lumina munduS
Viderat. et domini renoVatum nomen in orbE
Nuncius iste alacris refeRebat. At impia praesuL
Impius arma capit furit Edita sedibus Orcl
Turba rudis Monachi sed et His Diuina LutheruM
Rettulit e Monstris cerTi Clementia Fatl
Audit ibi Sanctos ac Vates patris in ArcE
Martinus junctus pauLo et tibi maxime DauiD."
(capital letters read in vertical direction bottom to top: 'MARTINVS LVTHERVS DEI MILES'
[cda 2013]
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Reverse of the panel: - in the upper section (on the cradle):
'262'
- bottom right (on the panel):
in red paint 'M183'
[Görres, cda 2013]
- Owner
- Wartburg-Stiftung, Eisenach
- Repository
- Museum "Luthers Sterbehaus", Eisleben
- Location
- Eisleben
- CDA ID
- DE_WSE_M0183
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_WSE_M0183/
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