Christ blessing the children
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1537
Lucas Cranach the Elder
German · 1472–1553
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm. He was a close friend of Martin Luther, and eleven portraits of that reformer by him survive. Cranach also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued to paint nude subjects from mythology and religion throughout his career.
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Madonna and Child under the Apple Tree
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1530
State Hermitage Museum
A Stag Hunt with the Elector Friedrich the Wise of Saxony
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1529
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Adam and Eve
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1528
Uffizi Gallery
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.
The Nymph at the Fountain
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1530
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1509
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Lucretia
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1530
Museo Soumaya
Portrait of the Emperor Charles V
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1533
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Saints Catherine, Margaret, and Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1517
Toledo Museum of Art
Cupid Complaining to Venus
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1526
National Gallery
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 Nymph of the Spring
Lucas Cranach the Elder
National Gallery of Art
Portrait of a Woman
Lucas Cranach the Elder
National Gallery of Art
A Prince of Saxony
Lucas Cranach the Elder
National Gallery of Art
A Princess of Saxony
Lucas Cranach the Elder
National Gallery of Art
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