File:Cranach the Younger Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon.jpg

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anonymous: Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon  wikidata:Q22005919 reasonator:Q22005919
Artist
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger  (1515–)  wikidata:Q170339
 
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger
Description painter, engraver and politician
Date of birth/death 4 October 1515 / 1515 Edit this at Wikidata 25 January 1586 / 1584 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lutherstadt Wittenberg Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Work period Renaissance
Work location
Lutherstadt Wittenberg Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1774,Q170339
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Title
Portrait of Philip Melanchthon Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lpl,"Portret Philippa Melanchthona."
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon."
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Philipp Melanchthon Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1564
date QS:P571,+1564-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 86.5 cm (34 in); width: 66 cm (25.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,86.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,66U174728
institution QS:P195,Q153306
Current location
not on view
Accession number
M.Ob.1761
Object history 16th century
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
: transferred to St. Elizabeth's Church, Wrocław

1946: transferred to National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) from Nazi German Art Repository, Kamenz (Kamieniec Ząbkowicki)

2012: deposited to City Museum of Wroclaw
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1564
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REVERENDVS VIR D. PHILIPPVS MELANTHON NATVS EST ANO M.CCCC.XC.VII. XIIII CAL: MAR: POST HORAM VII POMERIDIANAM IN OPPIDO PALADINATVS BRETTA IDEM MORTVVS EST WITEBERGAE ANO M.D.LX.XIII CAL: MAII: HORA VII VESPERTINA ET SEPVLTVS EST WITEBERGAE IN TEMPLO ARCIS
Notes Portrait of the reformer against a grey background, a curtain is inferred in the top right corner. Melanchthon looks to the left, he wears a black cloak. His brown hair is thinning and he has a grey beard. He holds a closed book in his hands.
References

Bożena Steinborn, Antoni Ziemba (2000) Malarstwo niemieckie do 1600 roku. Muzeum Narodowe. ISBN 83-71001-41-X, p. 87

lucascranach.org
Source/Photographer cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl
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