Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532 - Martin Luther (1483–1546) - fine art print

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The over 480 year-old artwork was created by the northern renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1532. The version of the masterpiece has the size: 13 1/8 x 9 1/8 in (33,3 x 23,2 cm). Oil on wood was used by the European artist as the medium of the work of art. The artwork is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Robert Lehman, 1955 (licensed - public domain). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Gift of Robert Lehman, 1955. Furthermore, alignment is in portrait format with a side ratio of 1 : 1.4, which means that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Lucas Cranach the Elder was a painter, whose style was mainly Northern Renaissance. The painter lived for 81 years, born in the year 1472 in Kronach, Bavaria, Germany and passed away in 1553 in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany.

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Lucas Cranach and his workshop produced many printed and painted portraits of Martin Luther, with whom the artist was well acquainted. In this small panel, the Reformer is shown close up, in three-quarter profile, wearing the distinctive black Protestant vestments. The picture was probably joined with a portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, a theologian, intellectual leader of the Reformation, and Luther’s main collaborator. Several surviving versions indicate that the pairing enjoyed a wide circulation. The present painting, which shows a certain formulaic stiffness, must be considered a repetition by Cranach’s workshop.

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