Portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1543
Why it's great
Martin Luther and his friend and fellow reformer Philipp Melanchthon, shown side by side in two matching panels painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1543. Melanchthon was the scholar who organized Luther's ideas.
🏛️ Part of history
The Protestant Reformation (1517–1648) — Martin Luther and his friend and fellow reformer Philipp Melanchthon, shown side by side in two matching panels painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1543.
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Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German painter born in Kronach in 1472. He became court painter to the rulers of Saxony in Wittenberg, was a close friend of Martin Luther, and ran a busy workshop that made portraits, religious scenes and the first Protestant images. He died in Weimar in 1553.
