Philip Melanchthon

Illustration

by Lucas Cranach the Younger
published on 11 November 2021

Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), German theologian and prominent figure of the Protestant Reformation, print by Lucas Cranach the Younger, c. 1561.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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