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
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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/
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