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Portrait of a woman
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Portrait_of_a_woman
Date 1526(1526)
Medium Oil on wood
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Salome
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Salome
Date ca. 1530(1530)
Medium Oil on poplar
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Elector John the Constant of Saxony
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Elector_John_the_Constant_of_Saxony
Date 1526(1526)
Medium Oil on linden
Dimensions Height: 57 cm (22.4 in). Width: 37 cm (14.6 in).
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Portrait of a Young Man
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Portrait_of_a_Young_Man
Date first half of 16th century
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 30.5 cm (12 in). Width: 23 cm (9.1 in).
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Kreuzigung Christi
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Kreuzigung_Christi
Date 1503(1503)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 138 x 99 cm (54.3 x 39 in)
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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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