Keywords: Portrait of Philip Melanchthon, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg thumb 75px Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon Oil and tempera on oak diameter 9 cm Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover 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 right Stephanie Buck Hans Holbein Cologne Könemann 1999 ISBN 3829025831 Creator Hans Holbein d J c 1535 PD-old-100 Creator Hans Holbein d J Philipp Melanchthon by Hans Holbein der Jüngere miniature |