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	Cranach, Lucas the Elder - MSN Encarta
		Lucas Cranach the Elder (Lucas Cranach der Ältere, 4 October 1472 – October 16, 1553) was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving
		Cranach was a friend of Martin Luther, and his art expresses much of the spirit and feeling of the German Reformation.
		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.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551938/Cranach_Lucas_the_Elder.html (433 words)

	Biography
		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.
		In 1505 Cranach became court painter to the electors of Saxony at Wittenberg, a position he held until 1550.
	www.wga.hu /bio/c/cranach/lucas_e/biograph.html (435 words)

	Books \| Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Lucas Cranach the Elder (c1530)
		Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) was a friend and follower of the founder of the Reformation, Martin Luther, and court artist to the Electors of Saxony.
		Cranach's hunting scenes reveal the mixture of the cultured and the primitive that prevailed at German courts.
		Cranach's Judith is more paradoxical; the very clothes that had been introduced into the iconography to stress her chastity become sexually charged as she exposes the gory head to the shocked but fascinated viewer.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4832210-110738,00.html (577 words)

	Cranach, Lucas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cranach, Lucas, 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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-cranach.html (334 words)

	Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Lucas Cranach the Elder (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 the Elder Summary
		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 /Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder (2343 words)

	The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
		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.
	www.vangoghgallery.com /artistbios/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder.html (266 words)

	Lucas Cranach The Elder ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		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
		Frederick III (1463-1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony, 1533 Attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder
	www.wwar.com /masters/e/elder-lucas_cranach_the.html (1469 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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)

	CGFA- Bio: Lucas Cranach the Elder (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and graphic artist who excelled in portraits and in female nudes.
		Cranach, whose original name may have been Lucas Müller or Sunder, was born on October 4, 1472, in Kranach, Franconia, from which town he took his surname.
		Cranach was a friend of Martin Luther, and his art expresses much of the spirit and feeling of the German Reformation.
	cgfa.sunsite.dk /cranach1/cranach1_bio.htm (346 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder
		Cranach the Elder, an artist's son was born...
		Cranach The Elder - Cranach, Lucas, The Elder, b.
		Lucas Cranach the Elder / Melchior Lotter (Wittenberg, 1527)
	virtualology.com /virtualmuseumofart.com/hallofgermanart/LUCASCRANACHTHEELDER.COM (426 words)

	WebMuseum: Cranach, Lucas the Elder
		Cranach remained in Wittenberg until 1550, when he followed John Frederick (the Unfortunate), the last Saxon Elector of the Ernestine branch, into exile, in Augsburg.
		Cranach continued with his religious work, but his woodcut designs (notably those for the first German edition of the New Testament in 1522) are generally more interesting that his paintings in this sphere.
		During the last years of his life Cranach was assisted by his son, Lucas the Younger (1515-86), who carried on the tradition of the workshop and imitated his father's style so successfully that it is often difficult to distinguish between their hands.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/cranach (445 words)

	Lucas Cranach biography - Oil painting Art reproductions - Art Sender
		Cranach was born at Cronach in upper Franconia, and learned the art of drawing from his father.
		Five years later the friar dropped the cowl, and Cranach was present as "one of the council" at the betrothal festival of Luther and Catherine Bora.
		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.artsender.com /artists/Cranach_Lucas.htm (2032 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder Online
		Lucas Cranach the Elder at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
		Lucas Cranach the Elder at the National Gallery, London, UK Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
		Lucas Cranach the Elder in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/cranach_the_elder_lucas.html (686 words)

	Cranach - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts
		As the leading member of a German family of artists, Lucas Cranach was a painter, printmaker and book illustrator with a distinctly individual manner and a highly successful business.
		During the course of his long career, Cranach created striking portraits and expressive devotional works, propaganda for the Protestant cause, as well as his own brand of erotic female nude and inventive treatments of biblical, mythological and classical subjects.
		Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Golden Age (detail), c.
	www.royalacademy.org.uk /exhibitions/cranach (301 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder
		Lucas Cranach the Elder: German painter, etcher and woodcut designer.
		In Vienna Cranach also painted his earliest known religious subjects, of a type which associates him with the Danube School, the paintings usually being set in vast pine woods and mountainous landscapes (e.g.
		Another genre developed by Cranach was that of the erotic nude, particularly popular with the private collectors who formed the bulk of his clientele.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/C/cranach.html (409 words)

	People in Luther's environment: Lucas Cranach the Elder (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 /e/lca.html (372 words)

	Lucas Cranach The Elder (1472 - 1553) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Lucas Cranach the Elder trained with his father in his birthplace and surname, Kronach.
		Cranach specialized in portraits that were distinguished by their bright color, elegant costumes, and strong design.
		In order to construct images that appear to be authentic family photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, Morrissey uses period clothing and props, both her own and others, and the setting of her family's house in Dublin.
	wwar.com /masters/c/cranach_the_elder-lucas.html (1721 words)

	Cranach The Elder, Lucas
		Lucas Cranach the Elder: Painting Materials, Techniques and Workshop Practice
		This study provides the first comprehensive description of the materials, techniques and studio practices of German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.
		Gunnar Heydenreich draws on detailed technical examination of Cranach’s paintings, as well as analysis of documentary sources, to explain the characteristic elements of more than three hundred of Cranach’s paintings.
	www.artistactoractress.com /historical_artists/cranach_the_elder_lucas.html (147 words)

	'The Nymph of the fountain', Lucas Cranach the Elder
		'The Nymph of the fountain', Lucas Cranach the Elder
		In 1505 Cranach moved to the court of the Elector Frederick the Wise in Saxony.
		The reclining female nude composition was based on an ancient text describing a spring or fountain guarded by a statue of a nymph.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /walker/collections/13c-16c/nymph.asp (147 words)

	The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
		Lucas Cranach the Elder’s depiction of Christ on the Cross is divided in half to distinguish the Blessed and the Damned.
		(Cranach was court painter to the elector of
		Although he was a contemporary of Italian Renaissance artists such as Correggio, Cranach’s style is quite different from that of his peers to the south.
	www.artic.edu /artaccess/AA_RenBar/pages/REN_4.shtml (330 words)

	Untitled Document
		Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Law and the Gospel
		"The most effective and successful of the doctrinal representations came from the school of Lucas Cranach, the contrast between the Law and the Gospel, or the Old and New Testaments.
		The earliest example from Lucas Cranach the Elder comes from the later 1520s.
	employees.oneonta.edu /farberas/arth/ARTH214/Cranach_LawGrace.html (735 words)

	Cranach the Elder Lucas - Fine art posters - agniart.ru
		Cranach Lucas The Elder (1472-1553) – German painter.
		In many Cranach’s works the artist’s passion to grimaces, bony forms and vegetative elements is evident.
		The next years the manner had been found by Cranach in Wittenberg and was considered as the top of his skill, wouldn’t change any more.
	www.agniart.ru /eng/folder-10764 (133 words)

	Royal Academy Home - Royal Academy of Arts
		The exhibition brings together some 70 works chosen to represent the quality and range of this important master.
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		Commissioned by both Luther and his Catholic enemies, Lucas Cranach made art that breached the spiritual divide of his day.
	www.royalacademy.org.uk (221 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucas Cranach the Elder (Lucas Cranach der Ältere, 1472 – October 16, 1553) was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving.
		In that year the elector gave him the winged snake as a motto, and this motto, or Kleinod, as it was called, superseded the initials on all his pictures after that date.
		In a letter written from Worms in 1521, Luther calls him his gossip, warmly alluding to his "Gevatterin," the artist's wife.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder (1830 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder or Lucas Cranach the Younger. Biography - Olga's Gallery
		Lucas Cranach the Elder or Lucas Cranach the Younger.
		Cranach the Younger was a pupil of his father, Lucas Cranach the Elder, very often he drew clothes and accessories on his fathers' pictures.
		In the mid-1530s he began to play an increasingly important role in his father’s workshop, and took it over at his death.
	www.abcgallery.com /C/cranach/ycranachbio.html (216 words)

	Lucas Cranach the Elder (Getty Museum)
		Lucas Cranach the Elder took his surname from his birthplace, Kronach, where he probably trained with his painter father.
		One of Wittenberg's leading citizens, Cranach owned a bookshop and a pharmacy and served on the city council in addition to his work at court.
		As Martin Luther's close friend, he supervised the printing of Luther's propaganda pamphlets; designed woodcuts for Luther's translation of the New Testament; painted altarpieces for Lutheran churches; and painted, engraved, and made woodcut portraits of Protestant Reformers and princes.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a699-1.html (179 words)

	Biography
		His work at this time, lyrical and spirited with landscape setting, was influenced by that of Albrecht Durer.
		His portraits of Protestant leaders, including many versions of Luther and Duke Henry of Saxony (1514, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden), are sober and meticulously drawn.
		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.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /bio/c/cranach/lucas_e/biograph.html (379 words)

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