Abstract

This diptych, one of the many portraits of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder, shows the reformer with his wife, Katharina von Bora (1499-1552), four years after they were married.

Martin Luther and his Wife (1529)

Lucas the Elder Cranach

Source

Source: Lucas Cranach d.Ä. (Workshop). Diptych with the Portraits of Martin Luther and his Wife, Katharina Bora (1529). Original: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
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Recommended Citation

Martin Luther and his Wife (1529), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-the-reformations-to-the-thirty-years-war-1500-1648/ghdi:image-3363> [April 22, 2025].

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