A Wikipedia article on Martin Luther, the German Augustinian friar and theologian whose 1517 Ninety-Five Theses began the Protestant Reformation. The article documents multiple portraits by Lucas Cranach the Elder made across Luther's life, from a 1520 engraving of him as a tonsured friar through later likenesses, establishing Cranach as the primary visual documentarian of Luther's appearance during his own lifetime, the same workshop convention museum-held portraits such as the Metropolitan Museum's continue. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop as the standard likeness-makers for Martin Luther in his own lifetime, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue attribution of this exact portrait to that workshop. Citation
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
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