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Johann(es) Scheyring (Ziering)
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Johann(es)_Scheyring_(Ziering)
1529
Oil on wood
51.5 X 35 cm (20.28 X 13.78 in)
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Judith with the head of Holofernes
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Judith_with_the_head_of_Holofernes
um 1530
87 x 56 cm
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Selbstportrat im 77. Lebensjahr
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1550(1550)
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67 X 49 cm
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Die Heilige Dorothea
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c. 1530
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77X59cm
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Lucas il Vecchio Cranach's art
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Lucas il Vecchio Cranach's art
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Lucas_Cranach
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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