Martin Luther
- Depicted
- Martin Luther, German, 1483–1546
- Date
- 1548
- Material
- Engraving
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- plate: 10 1/16 x 6 13/16 in. (25.6 x 17.3 cm)
sheet: 10 1/8 x 6 7/8 in. (25.7 x 17.5 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Moyer S. Fleisher in memory of Dr. Moyer S. Fleisher
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 200:1968
NOTES
Although Melchior Lorck was Danish, his work shows his knowledge of the German engravers from the first half of the 16th century. Two decades after the fact, he borrowed from Albrecht Dürer’s portrait of Erasmus for this posthumous portrait of Martin Luther, placing the Reformer at his lectern with his books surrounding him. Lorck’s technique is idiosyncratic, and the fine, parallel lines must have been in emulation of Dürer’s silvery, fine-lined engraving technique from the decades 1510 to 1530.
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