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The Trinity dsg Painting ID:: 6252
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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder The Trinity dsg Oil on wood
Museum der Bildenden K??nste, Leipzig
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The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (detail) fhg Painting ID:: 6253
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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (detail) fhg c. 1516
Panel, 67,5 x 47,3 cm (full painting)
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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The Annunciation to Joachim rrt Painting ID:: 6254
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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder The Annunciation to Joachim rrt 1516-18
Oil on panel, 60,5 x 51 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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Virgin and Child (detail) hhgr Painting ID:: 6256
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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder Virgin and Child (detail) hhgr 1525-30
Oil on canvas transferred from panel
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Madonna and Child fgd142 Painting ID:: 6257
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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder Madonna and Child fgd142 Wood, 60 x 42 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
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German painter (b. 1472, Kronach, d. 1553, Weimar).
German painter and engraver. The son of a painter, he settled in Wittenberg c.1504 and was court painter successively under three electors of Saxony. There he maintained a flourishing workshop and was twice burgomaster. Cranach was a close friend of Martin Luther, whose doctrine he upheld in numerous paintings and woodcuts, and he has been called the painter of the Reformation. He was a rapid and prolific painter, and the work turned out by his studio is uneven in quality. Naïve and fanciful, often awkward in draftsmanship, it has, nonetheless, freshness and originality and a warm, rich palette. His portraits are particularly successful. Among his best-known works are Repose in Egypt (Gemäldgalerie, Staatliche Mus., Berlin-Dahlem); Judgment of Paris (Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe); Adam and Eve (Courtauld Inst., London); and Crucifixion (Weimar). The latter contains figures of Luther and Cranach. His many famous protraits include those of Elector John Frederick and Self-Portrait (Uffizi). Cranach was also an accomplished miniaturist. He produced a few copperplates and designs for woodcuts. His son and pupil Lucas Cranach, the Younger, 1515C86, |
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