Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right

Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right

Title

Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right

[KKL 2022]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Ausst.-Kat. Florenz 2017, Nr. 1]

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Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Ausst.-Kat. Florenz 2017, No. 1] [KKL 2022]

Production date
1529

Production date

1529

[dated, KKL 2022]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 36.5 x 23 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 36.5 x 23 cm

  • [Ausst.-Kat. Florenz 2017, No. 1]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at centre left: winged serpent with elevated wings facing right and dated '1529'; in black paint

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at centre left: winged serpent with elevated wings facing right and dated '1529'; in black paint

  • [KKL 2022]

Owner
Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
Repository
Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
Location
Florence
CDA ID
IT_GdU_1160
FR (1978) Nr.
FR312B
KKL-No
IV.M7a, Part of portait group IV
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/IT_GdU_1160/

Provenance

  • Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti, Guardaroba, Florence, before 1666 (accession date)
  • Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence
  • Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Florence
  • Castello di Poppi, war shelter, Poppi, 19-12-1942 (accession date)
  • Castel Giovo, Bolzano, San Leonardo
  • Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Florence, 22-7-1945 (accession date)
  • Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence, 22-2-1951 (accession date)
    [Ausst.-Kat. Florenz 2017, p. 44, fn. 9 and 10; Dülberg 1992, p. 286, No. 309]

Exhibitions

Utrecht 1959
Florence 1980
Memphis 2004
Rome 2010, No. 50
Rome 2011/12

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Florence 2017 64, 65, 72 1 Pl. p. 65
EditorFrancesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara
Title I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee [Uffizi, Florence]
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Luca 2017 43, 45, 46
AuthorFrancesca de Luca
TitleI volti della Riforma nelle collezioni granducali
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages42-47
Price 2017 16, 17
AuthorDavid H. Price
TitleLucas Cranach e la Riforma
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages12-27
Exhib. Cat. Rome 2011/2012
AuthorMaria Grazia Bernardini, Marco Bussagli
TitleIl Rinascimento a Roma. Nel segno di Michelangelo e Raffaello, [Rome]
Place of PublicationMilan
Year of Publication2011
Exhib. Cat. Rome 2010 282 - 285 No. 50 Pl. p. 284
EditorGalleria Borghese, Rome, Anna Coliva, Bernard Aikema
TitleCranach. L'altro rinascimento / a different renaissance, [Rome, Galleria Borghese 15 ottobre 2010 - 13 febbraio 2011]
Place of PublicationMilan
Year of Publication2010
Exhib. Cat. Memphis 2004
AuthorCristina Acidini
TitleMasters of Florence. Glory and Genius at the Court of the Medici [Memphis]
Place of PublicationMemphis
Year of Publication2004
Exhib. Cat. Florence 1980
AuthorClaudia Beltramo Ceppi
TitleFirenze e la Toscana dei Medici nell'Europa del Cinquecento. Palazzo Vecchio: committenza e collezionismo medicei [Florence, Palazzo Vecchio]
Place of PublicationFlorence
Year of Publication1980
Cat. Florence 1979 229 P461 Fig.
Authorn. a.
TitleCatalogo dei dipinti
Place of PublicationFlorence
Year of Publication1979
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 No. 312B
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Exhib. Cat. Utrecht 1959
TitleHerdenkingstentoonstelling Paus Adrianus VI - Gedenkboek catalogus [Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Leuven, Stadhuis]
Place of PublicationUtrecht
Year of Publication1959
Cohn 1956 35, 36 Fig.
AuthorWerner Cohn
TitleLucas Cranach
Place of PublicationMilan
Year of Publication1956
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 under No. 251
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
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Conservation History

Date2005

(U.R. 7442a)

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

  • conservation treatment by Daniele Rossi

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