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Madonna
Painting ID:: 70463
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Lucas Cranach
Madonna
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *60 ?? 42 cm
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Melancholie
Painting ID:: 70539
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Lucas Cranach
Melancholie
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Deutsch: 51 ?? 97 cm
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Herakles bei Omphale
Painting ID:: 70719
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Lucas Cranach
Herakles bei Omphale
Date 1537(1537)
Medium Oil on wood
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Portrat des Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg als Hl Hieronymus im Grunen
Painting ID:: 71507
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Lucas Cranach
Portrat des Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg als Hl Hieronymus im Grunen
Date 1527(1527)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 57 x 37,6 cm
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Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg
Painting ID:: 72064
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Lucas Cranach
Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg
Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg
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Lucas Cranach
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Kronach 1472-Weimar 1553
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, |
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