Philipp Melanchton
Medium
casting
Dimensions
9.88; 3.5
About this artwork
Bronzen penning. Voorzijde: borststuk man binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: opschrift
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...