Philipp Melanchthon, 1497-1560, Reformer [obverse]
Friedrich Hagenauer
probably 1543
![Philipp Melanchthon, 1497-1560, Reformer [obverse] by Friedrich Hagenauer](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/philipp-melanchthon-1497-1560-reformer-obverse-nga-45365.webp)
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
overall (diameter): 4.7 cm (1 7/8 in.) gross weight: 42.05 gr (0.093 lb.) axis: 12:00
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1957.14.1190.a
About the Artist
Friedrich Hagenauer · 1490–1546
Friedrich Hagenauer (c. 1490–c. 1546) was a German sculptor and medallist of the Northern Renaissance whose finely wrought portrait medals and carved reliefs placed him among the most accomplished practitioners of his craft in early sixteenth-century Germany. The details of his early life and training remain incompletely documented, but he is believed to have been born in Strasbourg and to have re...