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title: Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous with Book and Crucifix
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identifier: P_MSS400_B001_F005_I001
number: 300000445522
created: 1555/1560
description: A woodcut containing a portrait of John Frederick (Johann Friedrich) reading a book and praying before a crucifix. Frederick was a leader of the Schmalkaldic League and fought for Luther's cause against the Imperial troops. The league was defeated in the Battle of Muehlberg in April of 1547. Frederick was wounded by a slash across his left cheek, captured, condemned to death, but ultimately pardoned and reinstated as duke in Weimar. After 1547, however, the Electoral power had fallen to the rivalling Albertininian line of the dynasty residing in Dresden. The print depicts Frederick with the scar on his cheek. The book contains the words, "Hilf Got[t]" (help me God). Cranach marked the woodcut plate with his device and dated it to 1552, but the broadsheet in its current manifestation was printed in 1557.
creator: Cranach, Lucas, 1515-1586
place of origin: Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
contributor: Bruno, Gregor
language: Latin
subject: Early works to 1800
subject: Woodcuts (prints)
subject: Crucifixion
subject: Jesus Christ
subject: Johann Friedrich I, Kurfürst von Schsen, 1503-1554
temporal: Sixteenth century
extent: 15.9 x 18.1 cm
type: Still image
medium: woodcuts (prints)
relation: r8p7b
source: Reformation-era Woodcut collection, 1506-1576
bibliographic citation: Heller, Lucas Cranach's Leben und Werke, p. 239 n. 612.
locator: Box 1, Folder 5
identifier: MSS 400
rights: The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e. not protected by copyright, has been produced by Pitts Theology Library.
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owner: Emory University
mediator: Pitts Theology Library
coverage: 1555

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