Image: Hans Holbein the Younger - Philipp Melanchthon (Lower Saxony State Museum)
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Description: Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) was a theologian and one of the leaders of the German Reformation. It is unlikely Holbein ever met him; and he may have based this portrait on pictures by Cranach or Dürer (Buck, p. 71). Holbein also painted a decorative lid for this small painting.
Title: Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon " label QS:Len,"Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon " label QS:Lde,"Porträt von Philipp Melanchthon"
Credit: http://www.mystudios.com/art/northern/holbein/holbein-philipp.html
Author: Hans Holbein the Younger
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