# Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Panel, 23 x 16 cm \(each\) ## Commentary In the 1520s Cranach was involved in Wittenberg's large book-printing business. There are remarkable similarities between the sizes of Cranach's paintings and the paper and book formats used in Wittenberg at that time. The portrait series of Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora in the 1520s by Cranach were painted on quarto-sized panels. \(If a sheet of paper is folded once, this produces the folio format, then come quarto: 4 leaves with 8 pages.\) ## Related artworks - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion \(detail\)]() - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion]() - [A Prince of Saxony]() - [A Princess of Saxony]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()