A small oil-on-wood portrait of Martin Luther, produced by the Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, probably in 1532. It follows the standardized bust-length likeness of Luther that the Cranach workshop produced in multiple versions during the reformer's own lifetime to circulate a recognizable image of him. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 55.220.2, given by Robert Lehman in 1955.
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Source Martin Luther (1483-1546), accession 55.220.2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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The portrait's directly named sitter per the museum's own title and its own subject-tag identifier, attributed by the museum to the Cranach workshop convention the corroborating Wikipedia record independently names as the primary source of Luther's likeness in his own lifetime.
Source Martin Luther (1483-1546), accession 55.220.2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Additional Source Martin Luther (Wikipedia)
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1. Martin Luther (1483-1546), accession 55.220.2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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A small oil-on-wood portrait of Martin Luther, produced by the Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, probably in 1532.
Martin Luther (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: Martin LutherQuote, Depicts: Martin Luther
Lucas Cranach the Elder painted the standard portraits of Martin Luther during his own lifetime, establishing the likeness by which he was recognized.
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