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  Lucas Cranach (1472 - 1553) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Cranach was an advocate of the Reformation, painting a portrait of its forerunner, Martin Luther.
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  Lucas Cranach the Younger - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
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 Biography
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'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.
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 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.
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 Cranach, Lucas (der Altere) (1472-1553)
Lucas Cranach der Altere (the Elder) took his name Cranach from the city where he was born, Kronach.
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The birth house of Lucas Cranach the Elder was demolished to build this new town hall in Kronach.
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 Lucas Cranach the Younger
His two sons Hans and Lucas (the younger) were born in...
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 People in Luther's environment: Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder, an artist's son, was born in Cronach in Franconia in 1472.
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.
Cranach followed the pardoned Elector to Weimar in 1552, where he died in 1553 at the age of 81.
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 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.
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 Conversion of Paul by Lucas Cranach the Younger
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.
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 Lucas Cranach the Younger Online
Lucas Cranach the Younger at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Lucas Cranach the Younger in the Art Renewal Center
All images and text on this Lucas Cranach the Younger page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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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.
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 Lucas Cranach the Younger
Stag Hunt of Johann Friedrich of Saxony, 1544, AVK.
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 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.
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