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The Three Graces
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The_Three_Graces
Date 1535(1535)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 50.5 cm (19.9 in). Width: 35.7 cm (14.1 in).
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Salome
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Salome
1530(1530)
Medium Oil on poplar
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Portrait of Emperor Charles V
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Portrait_of_Emperor_Charles_V
Date 1533(1533)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 51.2 x 36 cm (20.2 x 14.2 in)
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The Law and the Gospel
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The_Law_and_the_Gospel
Date 1529(1529)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 72 x 88.5 cm (28.3 x 34.8 in)
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Virgin and Child under an Apple Tree
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Virgin_and_Child_under_an_Apple_Tree
between 1525(1525) and 1530(1530)
Medium Oil on canvas transferred from panel
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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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