File:Portrait and Crest of Philipp Melanchthon.jpg
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English: Full length portrait and crest of Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560), noted Lutheran theologian and recipient of the title, "Praeceptor Germaniae" (Teacher of Germany) by Lucas Cranach, the Younger (1515-1554), hand-colored. Melanchthon's crest features the bronze serpent made by Moses to cure the Israelites of poisonous snakebites during their forty years in the wilderness. |
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| Source | From the book: Omnium operum pars prima [-quarta] / reverendi viri Philippi Melanthonis, By Philipp Melanchthon |
| Author | Lucas Cranach |
Image held in the digital archives of Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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