File:Cranach The Younger Portrait Of Martin Luther.jpg
1946: transferred to National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) from Nazi German Art Repository, Kamenz (Kamieniec Ząbkowicki)
2012: deposited to City Museum of Wroclaw
Inscriptions
Notes
Portrait of the Reformer against a grey background, a curtain is inferred in the top left corner. Luther looks to the right, he wears a black cloak and has short grey hair. He holds a closed book in his hands.
References
lucascranach.org
Source/Photographer
cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl
Other versions
2012: deposited to City Museum of Wroclaw
Date top right:
1564
Caption bottom:
REVERENDVS VIR DOCTOR MARTINVS LVTHERVS NATVS ANO M.CCCC.LXXXIII. IIII.ID. NOVEMB: HORA XI. ANTE MEDIAM NOCTEM IN OPPIDO CHERVUSCORVM ISLEBEA IDEM MORTVVS EST ANO M.D.XLVI. XII CAL: MARTII. QVI FVIT DIES CONCORDIAE IN PATRIA. ET SEPVLTVS EST WITEBERGAE IN TEMPLO ARCIS
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