Portrait of Martin Luther

Portrait of Martin Luther

Title

Portrait of Martin Luther

[cda 2013]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2013]

The portrait depicts Martin Luther as a half-length figure against a grey-blue background, facing right. He wears a black gown, his hair is grey. In his hands he presents the viewer with an open book, with a legible biblical text on both pages in Latin and German.

[Görres, cda 2013]

Attribution
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attribution

Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Hochstift Meißen, revised 2013]

Production date
1581

Production date

1581

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of painted surface: 85 x 61.4 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of painted surface: 85 x 61.4 cm

  • [cda 2013]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia top left: winged serpent with dropped wings, in black paint, facing right and date '1581'.

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia top left: winged serpent with dropped wings, in black paint, facing right and date '1581'.

  • [cda 2013]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • at the bottom edge of the painting:
    'IAPETI DE STIRPE SATVM DOCTORE LVTHERO
    MAIOREM, NOBIS NVLLA PROPAGO DEDIT.'

  • text on …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • at the bottom edge of the painting:
  • 'IAPETI DE STIRPE SATVM DOCTORE LVTHERO

  • MAIOREM, NOBIS NVLLA PROPAGO DEDIT.'

    • text on the open page of the book, left:
  • 'In 2 ad corint[...] 10

  • Arma militiae nostrae non

  • fuerit carnalia sed potentia

  • Deo, ad Destructionem muni

  • tionum consilia destruentes

  • et omnem altitudinem extol

  • lentem se aduersus scientiam

  • Dei et in captiuitatem redi

  • gentes omnem intellectum

  • in obsequium Christ

  • Esaiae: 40

  • Verbum domini manet

  • in aeternum:'

    • text on the open page of the book, right:
  • 'Die waffenen vnsrer ritter

  • schaft seinde nicht fleischlich,

  • sondern mechtig fur got, zu

  • verstören die befestungen da

  • mit wir verstören die ansch

  • lege vndt alle höhe die sich

  • erhebet wider das er

  • kendenis gottes, vndt ne

  • mmen gefangen alle ver

  • nunfft vnter den gehor

  • sam Christi'

  • [Görres, cda 2013]

Owner
Ev.-Luth. Peterskirchgemeinde Püchau-Bennewitz
Repository
Dom zu Meißen
Location
Meissen
CDA ID
DE_PPB-DM_NONE-DM006
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_PPB-DM_NONE-DM006/

Provenance

  • from the Protestant-Lutheran community of the Peterskirche in Püchau-Bennewitz
  • Portrait of Martin Luther, 1581

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Technical studies

07. 2013Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Infrared reflectography

Underdrawing

  • photographed by Ingo Sandner
  • photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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