Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon

Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon

Title

Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon

[cda 2013]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2013]

The portrait depicts Philipp Melanchthon as a half-length figure against a grey-blue background, facing left. He wears a fur-trimmed black coat, his stubble is grey. He holds a open book with Latin and German biblical texts in his hands and presents it to the viewer.

[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 62.7 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of painted surface: 85 x 62.7 cm

  • [cda 2013]

Signature / Dating

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

Signature / Dating

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

  • [cda 2013]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • at the bottom edge of the painting:
    'HAEC PHILOMELA MELOS MAGNI CAELESTE LVTHERI
    DVM IVVAT EXIMIAE NOMINA LAVDIS HABET.'

  • on …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • at the bottom edge of the painting:
  • 'HAEC PHILOMELA MELOS MAGNI CAELESTE LVTHERI

  • DVM IVVAT EXIMIAE NOMINA LAVDIS HABET.'

    • on the pages of the open book, left:
  • 'Daniel [12]

  • Doctores autem fulge

  • bunt quasi splendor fir

  • mamenti, Et qui ad ius

  • titiam erudiunt multos,

  • quasi stellae, in seculum

  • et in aeternum,

  • Syrach 41.

  • Omnis coruptela mune

  • rum et opes male parter

  • pereunt sed veritas mane

  • in eternum.'

    • on the pages of the open book, right:
  • 'Die lehrer aber werden

  • leuchten wue des himmele

  • glantz vnd die so viell

  • zur gerechtigkeit weisen

  • wie die sternen immer vnd

  • Ewiglich.

  • Syrach XLI

  • Alle geschenk vnd vnrecht

  • gutt mussen vnder gehen

  • aber die warheit bleibet

  • Ewigleich.'

  • [Görres, cda 2013]

Owner
Ev.-Luth. Peterskirchgemeinde Püchau-Bennewitz
Repository
Dom zu Meißen
Location
Meissen
CDA ID
DE_PPB-DM_NONE-DM007
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_PPB-DM_NONE-DM007/

Provenance

  • from the Protestant-Lutheran community of the Peterskirche in Püchau-Bennewitz
  • Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, 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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