Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Christ Blessing the Children is a religious oil painting created by the German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop in 1537. Made and painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the painting depicts Jesus Christ with children, based on the New Testament verse "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God" (Mark 10:14); a popular subject of Protestant iconography in line with the Lutheran teachings of Sola gratia and Sola Fide; salvation by grace through faith, a theme which was depicted repeatedly by both Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son Lucas Cranach the Younger. Jesus is depicted in a dark blue tunic, surrounded by a group of mothers with children with apostles standing off to the side.

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Adam and Eve is a pair of paintings by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder, dating from 1528, housed in the Uffizi, Florence, Italy. The two biblical ancestors are portrayed, in two different panels, on a dark background, standing on a barely visible ground. Both hold two small branches which cover their sexual organs.

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Cupid Complaining to Venus is an oil painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Nearly 20 similar works by Cranach and his workshop are known, from the earliest dated version in Güstrow Palace of 1527 to one in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, dated to 1545, with the figures in a variety of poses and differing in other details. The Metropolitan Museum of Art notes that the number of extant versions suggests that this was one of Cranach's most successful compositions.

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The Spring Nymph at the Fountain is the earliest example of a series of paintings by Renaissance artists Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Younger, depicting a resting spring nymph. There are at least 24 versions that were made in the Cranach workshop in Wittenberg. It is sometimes difficult to determine to what extent the master himself painted.