Recto:
The panel is divided into two fields. The upper field shows the jewish Passover meal. Men, women and children have gathered around a circular table. They have walking sticks to signal their departure.
In the lower field this is related to the Last Supper. The apostles also sit at a
Recto:
The panel is divided into two fields. The upper field shows the jewish Passover meal. Men, women and children have gathered around a circular table. They have walking sticks to signal their departure.
In the lower field this is related to the Last Supper. The apostles also sit at a round table, Christ is emphasized by a halo and his position beneath the window with a view of a landscape. A cupbearer and a dog are present at the scene.
Verso:
Full-length portrait of Philipp Melanchthon wearing a black cassock beneath a rounded arch with organic ornamentation in the spandrels. Melanchthon holds an open book in his hands and presents the contents to the viewer.
[Görres, cda 2013]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop | [Schade 1974, 96, 98] |
- Production date
- 1582
Production date
1582 | [central panel dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimension of painted surface: 166.5 x 59.7 cm (clear dimension)
Dimensions
Dimension of painted surface: 166.5 x 59.7 cm (clear dimension)
Dimensions including frame: 191 x 84.7 x 6.7 cm
[cda 2013]
- Signature / Dating
Central panel with artist's insignia winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left, and dated '1582'
Signature / Dating
Central panel with artist's insignia winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left, and dated '1582'
[cda 2013]
- Inscriptions and Labels
Biblical quotation in an open book in Melanchthon's hands:
'Rom. VIII
Die Gott erwelet hat,
die hat er auch …Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
Biblical quotation in an open book in Melanchthon's hands:
'Rom. VIII
Die Gott erwelet hat,
die hat er auch beruffen,
Diese wort. S. pauli sind
einn heilsamer frolicher
Trost, der gantzen kirchen
darumb furgeschrieben, das
wir vns damit trosten sollen,
Das diese vnd kein anderr got-
tes volck vnd Auserwelete
sind die zum Beruff komen
sind, das ist die Gottes wort
hören lernen vnd anemen.
da
Darumb wer beruffen ist
der tröste sich, vnd wisse, das
keine andere, sie heissen wie
sie wollen, Gottes volck sin
vnd das er gewielich auser
welet ist, So er bey dem er
kanden Gottes wort ent
lich bleibet.
philip. Melan.
Rom. VIII
SI DEVS PRO NOBIS,
QVIC [sic] CONTRA NOS.'
[Kalmbach 2007, 29]
- Owner
- Johann-Friedrich-Danneil-Museum Salzwedel
- Repository
- Johann-Friedrich-Danneil-Museum Salzwedel
- Location
- Salzwedel
- CDA ID
- DE_JFDMS_K700c
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_JFDMS_K700c/