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.M7b, 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 No. 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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