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
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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/
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