The sheet is from an edition of the Lutheran bible printed in four volumes on parchment in 1561 for Nikolaus von Ebeleben [Libri in membr. impr. fol. 12-15] and is located opposite a depiction of the Luther rose at the beginning of the first volume.
It depicts Luther
The sheet is from an edition of the Lutheran bible printed in four volumes on parchment in 1561 for Nikolaus von Ebeleben [Libri in membr. impr. fol. 12-15] and is located opposite a depiction of the Luther rose at the beginning of the first volume.
It depicts Luther as a half-length figure, facing right behind a balustrade and against a bright blue background. Luther wears the typical black gown over a black robe with a white collar. He holds an open book in his hands. A text field is located in the lower third. It has a double line at the top to simulate a balustrade.
The composition is framed by a boarder gilded with gold leaf.
[Görres, cda 2015]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Younger
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Younger | [Fliege 1998, 262] |
- Production date
- 1562
Production date
1562 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support (parchment sheet): 37.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support (parchment sheet): 37.5 x 25 cm
[Willing-Stritzke in Exhib. Cat. Wittenberg 2015, 390]
Dimensions of painted surface: 30.5 x 16.7 cm
[Troschke 1939, 28]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia and date at the left next to the sitter's shoulder: winged serpent with dropped wings, facing right and dated '1562'; in gold
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia and date at the left next to the sitter's shoulder: winged serpent with dropped wings, facing right and dated '1562'; in gold
[cda 2015]
- Inscriptions and Labels
in the text field beneath the portrait:
'Inter Theologos est gloria prima Lutherus,
Nam Christi merito nemo magis tribuit.
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
in the text field beneath the portrait:
'Inter Theologos est gloria prima Lutherus,
Nam Christi merito nemo magis tribuit.
Huic par est nullus: placeat, non deneger eius,
Discipulus: cui laus contigit ista, sat est.'
[Görres, cda 2015]
- Owner
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
- Repository
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Abt. Historische Drucke
- Location
- Berlin
- CDA ID
- DE_SBB_fol-12-Iv
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SBB_fol-12-Iv/