Portrait of Philip Melanchthon

Illustration

by Heinrich Aldegrever
published on 11 November 2021

Portrait of Philip Melanchthon — Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), German Lutheran reformer, engraving by Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Portrait of Philip Melanchthon

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