Portrait of Martin Luther (1564) by Lucas Cranach the Younger
The subject holds a black-bound Bible and is dressed in everyday clothes and without unnecessary decoration, fitting the conventions of bourgeois portraiture of the time. In the top right hand corner is the Cranach coat of arms (a winger snake with a ring in its mouth) and the date 1564. At the bottom is a Latin inscription:
REVERENDVS VIR DOCTOR MARTINVS LVTHERVS NATVS ANO M.CCCC.LXXXIII. IIII.ID. NOVEMB: HORA XI. ANTE MEDIAM NOCTEM IN OPPIDO CHERVSCORVM ISLEBIA IDEM MORTVVS EST ANO M.D.XLVI. XII CAL: MARTII. QVI FVIT DIES CONCORDIAE IN PATRIA. ET SEPVLTVS EST WITEBERGAE IN TEMPLO ARCIS.[1]
Diptychsedit
The work is a pendant to a portrait of Philip Melanchthon, also now in the National Museum, Warsaw.[3] Such a diptych was a popular product of the Cranach studio, commissioned to decorate private homes or churches.[1]
Referencesedit
^ abc"Portrait of Martin Luther" (in Polish).[dead link]
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