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Lucas Cranach the Younger: Martin Luther and the Wittenberg Reformers  wikidata:Q28797644 reasonator:Q28797644
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Younger  (1515–1586)  wikidata:Q170339
 
Lucas Cranach the Younger
Description painter, engraver and politician
Date of birth/death 4 October 1515 Edit this at Wikidata 25 January 1586 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lutherstadt Wittenberg Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Work period Renaissance
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Lutherstadt Wittenberg Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q170339
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Title
Martin Luther and the Wittenberg Reformers Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Martin Luther and the Wittenberg Reformers Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Martin Luther and the Wittenberg Reformers Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lit,"martin lutero e i riformatori di wittenberg"
label QS:Laf,"Keurvors Johann Friedrich I van Sachse en die Wittenbergse hervormers."
label QS:Lde,"Martin Luther und die Wittenberger Reformer"
label QS:Lnl,"Groepsportret met Johan Frederik de Grootmoedige, keurvorst van Saksen (midden), Maarten Luther (links), Melanchton (rechts) en andere hervormers"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre group portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: a fragment, possibly wing of a triptych; Luther (left) with the Reformers and their protector, the Elector of Saxony, John Frederick the Magnanimous (1532-1547), right Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560), the man behind Luther most often is identified as Georg Spalatin (1484-1545), the man behind John Frederick's left shoulder is probably Saxon Chancellor Gregor Brück (1485-1557). The painting is a fragment of a larger composition. The reformers are witness to some event to their left and above, at which they gaze or point. The numbers painted on some of the figures seem to be original to the painting. They once corresponded to a list of names on the back of the panel, identifying key reformers for posterity, such as number 4, theologian and scholar Philipp Melanchthon.
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Date circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 70.2 cm (27.6 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 39.7 cm (15.6 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+70.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+39.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1743116
Accession number
1926.55 (Toledo Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

- 1854 Cornelia, Countess of Craven, Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire
(Christie's, London, Apr. 13, 1923, lot 81)

given by Edward Drummond Libbey
Exhibition history 1951 Zurich Museum of Art, Zurich, Switzerland
1957: Manchester, City Art Gallery, Art Treasures Centenary Exhibition, no. 40.
1969: Princeton University Art Museum, Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder Shown…in Memory of Erwin Panofsky, no. 4.
1983: Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Martin Luther und die Reformation in Deutschland, no. 429
2004: Torgau, Schloss Hartenfels, Glaube & Macht: Sachsen im Europa der Reformationszeit
29.3.-19.7.2015: Gotha, Germany, Herzogliches Museum, Image and Message: Cranach in the Service of the Court and the Reformation
28.7.-31.10. 2015: Torgau, Schloss Hartenfels, Luther and the Princes: The Ruler’s Image and Concept in the Age of Reformation
Credit line given by Edward Drummond Libbey
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) No.: -
in 1541 Craanch the Younger married the daughter of Gregor Brück. Afterher dead in 1550, he married the niece of Phillip Melanchthon.
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