Albrecht Dürer, 1526 - Philip Melanchthon - fine art print

(© - National Gallery of Art - www.nga.gov)

Medium: Engraving

Dimensions: Plate: 17.2 x 12.6 cm (6 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.) Sheet: 17.5 x 13.1 cm (6 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.)

This is Dürer's portrait of the famous reformer, Philip Melanchthon. Melanchthon was at least partly responsible for the long-term success of the Protestant Reformation; he contributed much to the cause by, for example, helping to consolidate many of Martin Luther's earlier ideas.

(Text: Emily Wilkinson)

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The classic art artpiece was made by Albrecht Dürer in 1526. Nowadays, this artwork belongs to the digital art collection of National Gallery of Art. With courtesy of - National Gallery of Art, Washington (public domain).The creditline of the artwork is the following: . Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Albrecht Dürer was a male painter, whose style was primarily Northern Renaissance. The European artist was born in the year 1471 and deceased at the age of 57 in 1528.

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