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Description: | This picture is related to a large group of portraits of the Protestant reformers, including Luther and Melanchthon, produced by Lucas Cranach and his studio over several decades. The artist may have copied the woodcut of Melanchthon which appears in Theodore Beza's Icones, published in 1580, containing contemporary portraits of the reformers. Philip Melanchthon was born at Bretten in the Palantinate, and educated at the Universities of Heidelberg and Tubingen. As Professor of Greek at the University of Wittenberg, he became Luther's fellow worker. He represented Luther at Augsburgh in 1530 and composed the famous Confession, which marked the culmination of the German Reformation. | Subjects: | portrait (Philip Melanchthon) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Cranach, Lucas, the elder (German painter, draftsman, and printmaker, 1472-1553) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8388... | Go to resource |
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