Lucas Cranach “The Elder” (1472 – 1553) was a famous German painter and printmaker, one of the major representatives of the Renaissance. He has a great legacy of Oil Paintings located in diverse museums around the globe, especially in his homeland. He spent his first training years in his father’s workshop, after that, he began to travel to different places in Europe to accumulate experience.
The religious subjects were a recurring theme in his Oil Paintings as well as the portraits. Then He continued throughout his career to paint nude subjects drawn from religion and mythology. Lucas Cranach “the Elder” was the father of Hans and Lucas Cranach the Younger, also painters. They continued the legacy of their father.
Lucas Cranach “The Elder” was the eldest of nine children. His father, Hans Maler, also was a painter. In 1524 Cranach met Albrecht Durer, the other famous German renaissance artist. Durer made a portrait of Cranach at that occasion. Cranach is considered to be the initiator of the so-called Danube school.
Among Cranach’s best works we can mention the following: The Crucifixion (1502), Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1504), Portrait of Henry the Devout of Saxony (1514), Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg before the Crucified Christ (1520-1530), Portrait of the Saxon Elector John the Constant (1526), The Betrothal of St. Catherine of Alexandria (1516), Virgin and Child in a Grape Arbor (1525), Virgin and Child under an Apple Tree (1530), Venus and Cupid (1509), Venus Standing in a Landscape (1529), Cupid Complaining to Venus (1530s), The Judgment of Paris (1530) and The Silver Age (The Effects of Jealousy) (1530). Some of these artworks are Oil Paintings.
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