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Summary

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Philipp Melanchthon

Artist



Alternative names	Lucas Cranach
Description	-German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death	4 October 1472	16 October 1553
Location of birth/death	Kronach	Weimar
Work location	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file	: Q191748 VIAF: 49268177 ISNI: 0000000121319721 ULAN: 500115364 LCCN: n50020861 NLA: 35031951 WorldCat

Title

Philipp Melanchthon

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

Philipp Melanchthon

Date

1543

Medium

paint on beech wood

Dimensions

height: 20.5 cm (8 in)

; width: 15.2 cm (5.9 in)

Collection

State Museum of Art and Cultural History in Schleswig

	Location	Schleswig , Germany
	Coordinates	54° 30′ 41.76″ N, 9° 32′ 29.4″ E
	Established	1880s date QS:P,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
	Authority file	: Q39695701 VIAF: 145421702 ISNI: 0000000121777394 LCCN: no2010062057 GND: 10022041-1 SUDOC: 026433036 WorldCat

Current location

Gottorf Castle

Credit line

on loan to the museum from a private collection

Inscriptions

center right:

dated 1543, and among them designated with the serpend with lying wings

Notes

FR (1978) Nr. -

References

Cranach Digital Archive
Corpus Cranach, image

Source/Photographer

Unknown source

Other versions

the right site counter part is a portrait of Martin Luther

Licensing

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File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:38, 19 January 2024		600 × 805 (53 KB)	Trzęsacz	https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SHLM_NONE-004
	08:20, 18 January 2006		428 × 599 (35 KB)	Torsten Schleese	Philipp Melanchthon von Lucas Cranach d. Ä. 1543 Öl auf Eichenholz 20,5 x 15,2 in Hamburg, Privatbesitz Category:Philipp Melanchthon Category:Lucas Cranach d. Ä. {{PD-old}}