Portrait of Johannes Bugenhagen as a half-length figure against a blue-grey background. Bugenhagen faces to the left and presents the viewer with an open bible. His hand and the book extend over the text block in the lower part of the painting.
[Görres, cda 2013]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Younger
Attribution
| Lucas Cranach the Younger | [Cat. Leipzig 2006, 107] |
- Production date
- 1579
Production date
| 1579 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 71 x 49 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 71 x 49 cm
[Cat. Leipzig 2006, 107]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia centre right with winged serpent and the date '1579'.
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia centre right with winged serpent and the date '1579'.
[Cat. Leipzig 2006, 107]
- Inscriptions and Labels
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top: 'IN EFFIEGIEM REVERENDI VIRI D DOCTORIS JOHANNIS BUGENHAGN
POMERANI PASTORIS ECCLESIAE WITTENBERGENSIS' -
bottom:
'TALIS ERAT VIVA POMERANVS IMAGINE VETVS. …Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- top:
'IN EFFIEGIEM REVERENDI VIRI D DOCTORIS JOHANNIS BUGENHAGN
POMERANI PASTORIS ECCLESIAE WITTENBERGENSIS'
- bottom:
'TALIS ERAT VIVA POMERANVS IMAGINE VETVS. QVI WITTENBERGAE CAELESTIA VERBA PROFESSVS. DOCTRINAE
SOCIVS MAGNE LVTHERE TVVS. SALVIFICO CHRISTI DOGMATE PAVIT OVES.'
The book is open showing John 3.16ff.
[Cat. Leipzig 2006, 106]
- Owner
- Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig
- Repository
- Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig
- Location
- Leipzig
- CDA ID
- DE_SML_kK24
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SML_kK24/
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