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	Lucas Cranach den eldre - Wikipedia
		Lucas Cranach den eldre (født 1472, død 16.
		The scene is laid on the margin of a forest of pines, and discloses the habits of a painter familiar with the mountain scenery of Thuringia.
		Cranach had three sons, all artists: John Lucas Cranach, who died at Bologna in 1536; Hans Cranach, whose life is obscure; and Lucas, born in 1515, who died in 1586.
	no.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucas_Cranach_den_eldre (1652 words)

	LUCAS CRANACH - LoveToKnow Article on LUCAS CRANACH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cranach came, reminded his majesty of his early sittings as a boy, and begged on his knees for kind treatment to the elector.
		Cranachs chief occupation was that of portrait-painting, and we are indebted to him chiefly for the preservation of the features of all the German Reformers and their princely adherents.
		Cranach had three sons, all artists:John Lucas, who died at Bologna in 1536; Hans Cranach, whose life is obscure; and Lucas, born in 1515, who died in I586.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CR/CRANACH_LUCAS.htm (1837 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – October 16, 1553) was a German painter.
		Five years later the friar dropped the cowl, and Cranach was present as "one of the council" at the betrothal festival of Luther and Katarina von Bora.
		As Cranach notes again in his diary on the day of his marriage, "I have had the most fortune to have found myself a maiden whose virtue and beauty are unexceled by those of her peers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder (2685 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder biography
		Cranach was a pupil of his father, and in 1504 became court painter to Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, at Wittenberg, by whom he was held in high repute.
		Cranach was in equal favor with the two following Electors of Saxony, and for two years remained with John Frederick during his imprisonment.
		Cranach was also an excellent painter of miniatures, as may be seen in the album of the University of Wittenberg, now at Halle, and especially in John Frederick's "Book of Tourneys," now at Coburg, a work of 144 leaves.
	www.dromo.info /cranachbio.htm (596 words)

	Lucas Cranach - Artist Biography
		Lucas Cranach was born in northern Franconia, and it is probable that he received his first art lessons from his father.
		Cranach, his two sons Hans and Lucas, and Cranach's many pupils painted a succession of portraits of the three Electors, who were all good friends as well as patrons.
		Cranach was a staunch adherent of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation and his portraits of Luther and his wife are among the finest in the world.
	postergallery.us /biography/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder.html (250 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and graphic artist who excelled in portraits and in female nudes.
		Lucas Cranach adopted his surname from his birthplace, Kronach, a town of Upper Franconia in the diocese of Bamberg.
		Cranach's sons were both artists, but the only one to achieve distinction was Lucas Cranach the Younger, who was his father's pupil and often his assistant.
	www.wga.hu /bio/c/cranach/lucas_e/biograph.html (435 words)

	Lucas Cranach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lucas Cranach the Elder Brief biography of Lutheranism's first great artist with links to pictures and woodcuts.
		People in Luther's Environment: Lucas Cranach the Elder Short biography of the artist, where his relations with Luther are described.
		Lucas Cranach the Younger Main works and biography of Lutheran artist and son of the noted Reformation-era painter.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Lucas_Cranach.html (253 words)

	Lucas Cranach, the Elder Biography / Biography of Lucas Cranach, the Elder Biography Biography
		Lucas Cranach the Elder was born at Kronach, Franconia.
		Cranach's earliest known works belong to the period of his Vienna residence and are strongly expressive in style, with figures and landscape dramatically united in movement; an interest in picturesque landscape manifests itself, anticipating tendencies peculiar to the so called Danube school.
		Cranach's work became less emotional after he moved to Wittenberg in 1505, although the change was slower in the woodcuts than in the paintings.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-lucas-cranach-the-elder (648 words)

	Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Lucas Cranach the Elder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lucas Cranach the Elder, an artist's son was born in Cronach in Franconia in about 1472.
		Cranach's daughters Ursula and Barbara was born in 1517 and 1519.
		Lucas and Barbara Cranach were the witnesses to Martin Luther's and Katharina von Bora's marriage, and Cranach was the Godfather of their first son Johannes.
	www.unc.edu /~wmoon/lucas1.html (298 words)

	Lucas Cranach der Ältere - Wikipedia
		Lucas Cranach der Ältere (* 1472 in Kronach, Oberfranken; † 16.
		Mit 29 Jahren ging Cranach 1501 nach Wien und blieb dort bis 1504.
		Dezember 1520 wurde Cranach durch seinen Dienstherrn ein Apothekenprivileg verliehen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucas_Cranach_der_%C3%84ltere (355 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drawing for woodcuts and engraving of copperplates became the occupation of artists of note, and the talents devoted in Italy to productions of the brush were here monopolized for designs on wood or on copper.
		Sources regarding Cranach's early life has indicated that he was in fact not a mysogynist, or a woman-hater.
		In the communiqué Cranach has professed to Luther that certain of his “new-found attitudes toward the fair sex”, supplemented and reinforced by later Lutheran teachings, have gone behind the production of the painting.
	www.wikipedia.com /wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_elder (2685 words)

	Lucas Cranach
		Great honor accrued to Cranach when he went in 1509 to the Netherlands, and took sittings from the emperor Maximilian and the boy who afterwards became Charles V. Until 1508 Cranach signed his works with the initials of his name.
		Five years later the friar droped the cowl, and Cranach was present as one of the council at the betrothal festival of Luther and Catherine Bora.
		It is characteristic of Cranach's readiness, and a proof that he possessed ample material for mechanical reproduction, that he received payment at Wittenberg in 1533 for sixty pairs of portraits of the elector and his brother in one day.
	www.nndb.com /people/177/000030087 (1741 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder Online
		Lucas Cranach the Elder at the Louvre Museum, Paris
		Lucas Cranach the Elder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Lucas Cranach the Elder in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/cranach_the_elder_lucas.html (387 words)

	Lucas Cranach, the Elder - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lucas Cranach was born in 1472 and took his name from his birthplace, the Franconian town of Kronach, which was part of the bishopric of Bamberg.
		Lucas Cranach is probably the artist most closely associated with the Protestant Reformation.
		Lucas Cranach died in Weimar in 1553 at the age of eighty-one.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?6700 (719 words)

	Lucas Cranach The Younger
		Lucas The Elder was also an artist's son and born in Cronach in Franconia in about 1472.
		His father: Lucas Cranach The Elder was one of the most highly respected and richest citizens of Wittenberg.
		Cranach followed the pardoned Elector to Weimar in 1552, where he died in 1553 at the age of 81.
	worldroots.com /cgi-bin/gasteldb?@I08702@ (491 words)

	Lucas Cranach (1472 - 1553) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) was official painter to the prince electors of Saxony, painted Luther, and alongside Dürer and Holbein, was one of the three great painters of 16th century Germany.
		The small Louvre painting, with its fine detail all by Cranach's own hand, shows a graceful Venus wearing a wide-rimmed hat, bejewelled necklace, and holding a transparent veil in front of her.
		The winged serpent holding a ring in its mouth is Cranach's seal and is skilfully merged into the stones on the ground.
	www.jahsonic.com /Cranach.html (162 words)

	Lucas Cranach The Elder (1472 - 1553) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Cranach specialized in portraits that were distinguished by their bright color, elegant costumes, and strong design.
		Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frederick the Wise and John the Constant of Saxony, 1509
		Lucas Cranach the Elder, Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist and Angels, circa 1535
	www.wwar.com /masters/c/cranach_the_elder-lucas.html (1561 words)

	De mensen rondom Luther: Lucas Cranach de Oudere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lucas Cranach de Oudere werd als zoon van een schilder rond 1472 in Kronach (Oberfranken) geboren.
		Lucas Cranach maakte van zijn werkplaats een zeer veelzijdig bedrijf.
		1519 Cranach wordt voor het eerst raadslid in Wittenberg.
	www.luther.de /nl/lca.html (320 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lucas Cranach (European Art To 1599, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Lucas Cranach[both: lOO´kAs krA´nAkh] Pronunciation Key, the Elder, 1472–1553, German painter and engraver.
		Cranach was a friend of Luther, whose doctrine he upheld in numerous paintings and woodcuts, and he has been called the painter of the Reformation.
		His son and pupil Lucas Cranach, the Younger, 1515–86, continued the tradition of his father whose workshop, signature, and popularity he inherited.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cranach.html (304 words)

	artists illustrating boys fashions: Lucas Cranach the Elder
		Cranach went to Wittenberg as court painter to Frederick III (the Wise), Elector of Saxony.
		Cranach in 1504 went to Wittenberg as court painter to Frederick III (the Wise), Elector of Saxony.
		Cranach during the later years was assisted by his son, Lucas the Younger.
	histclo.hispeed.com /art/ind/art-cranach.html (649 words)

	The Cranach Institute - Home
		The Cranach Institute is a research and educational arm of Concordia Theological Seminary devoted to working out the implications of the Lutheran doctrine of vocation and engaging contemporary culture with the truths of the Lutheran confessions.
		Lucas Cranach was a close friend of Martin Luther (they were godfathers of each other's children) and became one of the most important artists of his day.
		Cranach is a model of a layman who applied his faith in his secular vocation, impacting the culture with his Biblical worldview and his Lutheran convictions.
	www.cranach.org (199 words)

	People in Luther's environment: Lucas Cranach the Elder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lucas Cranach the Elder, an artist's son, was born in Cronach in Franconia in 1472.
		In 1520 Cranach acquired the apothecary's privilege; in that same year, Martin Luther was the Godfather of his daughter Anna.
		Lucas and Barbara Cranach were the witnesses to Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora's wedding, and Cranach was the Godfather of their first son Johannes.
	www.luther.de /en/lca.html (372 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Lucas Cranach (1472-1553)
		Before 1508 he had painted several altar-pieces for the Schlosskirche at Wittenberg in competition with Durer, Burgkmair and others; the duke and his brother John were portrayed in various attitudes and a number of the best woodcuts and copper-plates were published.
		Great honour accrued to Cranach when he went in 1509 to the Netherlands, and took sittings from the Emperor Maximilian and the boy who afterwards became Charles V. Until 1508 Cranach signed his works with the initials of his name.
		Cranach had three sons, all artists: John Lucas, who died at Bologna in 1536; Hans Cranach, whose life is obscure; and Lucas, born in 1515, who died in 1586.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=700 (1856 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lucas Cranach the Elder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Download high resolution version (527x700, 79 KB)Lucas Cranach the Elder, self portrait, This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
		Friedrich III (January 17, 1463 — May 5, 1525), also known as Frederick the Wise, was Elector of Saxony (from the House of Wettin) from 1486 to his death.
		Staghunt of Prince Johann Friedrich (detail) 1544 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Lucas Cranach the Younger (October 4, 1515 - January 25, 1586) was a German Renaissance painter.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lucas-Cranach-the-Elder (4626 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Virtual Tour
		It is full of symbolism of the Christian dogmas of Sin and the Fall and the Salvation of the human race: the young Christ holds in his hand an apple and bread, symbolising atonement for Man's original sin at the cost of his own earthly life.
		The Virgin is here a "second Eve", atoning for the sin of the mother of the human race, and is a development of a "Protestant" type of Virgin, the embodiment of the True Church on earth.
		But the complex theological programme did not prevent Cranach from putting into the image of the Virgin all the world's beauty and majesty, depicting her as the true queen of the earth - seen in the superb panorama which spreads out in the background.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/08/hm88_0_1_46_1.html (196 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucas Cranach the Younger (October 4, 1515 – January 25, 1586) was a German Renaissance painter.
		He was a son of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
		First he was an apprentice in his father's workshop and then his importance grew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_younger (116 words)

	Conversion of Paul by Lucas Cranach the Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lucas Cranach (KRAH nahk) the Younger was the son of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
		Cranach the Elder, whose father was an artist, also had three sons who were artists.
		Lucas the Younger worked with his father and often painted the clothing and less important elements of the pictures his father was painting.
	www.gardenofpraise.com /art10.htm (191 words)

	German Info: Martin Luther
		Born in a village near Nuremberg, Cranach was well established as court painter to the elector of Saxony when Luther began lecturing at the University of Wittenberg.
		Cranach died in 1553 in Weimar, where his tombstone bears the inscription Pictor celerrimus – “swiftest of painters.” Hundreds of paintings bearing his ensignia, a winged serpent, were produced by his Wittenberg workshop.
		Cranach was not the only artist working for the Protestant cause, and he was not above painting for papists.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/info/publications/infocus/luther/cranach.html (736 words)

	bibliography
		Cranach, whose original name may have been Lucas Muller or Sunder, was born on October 4, 1472, in Kranach, Franconia, from which he took his surname (Stepanov 10).
		It is believed that Cranach studied painting with his father, and from about 1501-1504 he lived in Vienna, and his earliest known works date from this period (Stepanov 12).
		Cranach was a friend of Martin Luther, and his art expresses much of the spirit and feeling of the German Reformation (Friedlander 26).
	www.unc.edu /~wmoon/biography.html (490 words)

	Lucas Cranach The Younger ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Martyrdom of James the Less, 15th - 16th century
		Lucas Cranach the Younger, German, 1515-1586 Portrait of a Woman 1549 Oil on panel 63.8
		Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ on the Mount of Olives, 15th - 16th century
	www.wwar.com /masters/y/younger-lucas_cranach_the.html (1304 words)

	Cranach - Wikipedia
		Hans Cranach (1513-1537), Maler und Graphiker, Sohn von Lucas Cranach dem Älteren
		Lucas Cranach der Ältere (1472-1553), Maler und Graphiker, Vater von Lucas Cranach dem Jüngeren
		Lucas Cranach der Jüngere (1515-1586), Maler und Graphiker, Sohn von Lucas Cranach dem Älteren
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucas_Cranach (125 words)

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