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View all 232 artworks. Lucas Cranach the Elder lived in the XV – XVI cent., a remarkable figure of German Northern Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Lucas Cranach the Elder (German: Lucas Cranach der Ältere [ˈluːkas ˈkʁaːnax deːɐ̯ ˈʔɛltəʁə]; c. 1472 – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving.
The presence of the serpent with folded wings on paintings dated 1535 and 1536 undermines this somewhat romantic notion but has been seen as an attempt by Cranach to distinguish the work of his sons. Lucas Cranach is probably the artist most closely associated with the Protestant Reformation.
The most important artist of the Protestant Reformation, Lucas Cranach the Elder court portraiture and woodcuts helped the religion become the major movement within Christianity in sixteenth century Europe.
- German
- Kronach, Upper Franconia
Learn about the life and works of Lucas Cranach the Elder, a leading German painter and printmaker of the early 16th century and the chief artist of the Reformation. See examples of his altarpieces, portraits, mythological paintings and nudes in the Collection.
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The Judgment of Paris. Cranach became a celebrated court painter for the electors of Saxony in Wittenberg. Among the most popular mythological scenes produced by him and his workshop for his courtly patrons were those featuring Venus, in particular the Judgment of Paris.
The Jewish heroine Judith presents the severed head of the Assyrian general who besieged her city, having seduced and then beheaded him with his own sword. Appropriately, she is “dressed to kill” and wears an elaborate contemporary costume that would have appealed to Cranach’s courtly patrons.
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