The Martyrdom of St Catherine by Lucas Cranach the Elder (HU HCBC) - detail - Category:The Martyrdom of St. Catherine by Lucas Cranach the Elder - Wikimedia Commons

The complex world of Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Every artist has favorite themes which they revisit again and again throughout their life. Rembrandt painted and repainted his own face as he went from young student to successful portraitist to s…

The magnificent rooms of the Thiel Gallery are always filled with art from around 1900 collected by the banker and patron of the arts Ernest Thiel. But this unique collection consists of nearly 900 works and there is not enough room to…

St. Barbara in a wooded landscape

The portrait depicts Duke Johann IV. of Anhalt in armor. He has turned his head to the left and he looks in this direction. His right hand is on his …

Cranach was one of the leading German painters and printmakers of the early 16th century. As court painter of the Elector of Saxony, the patron of Luther, Cranach is remembered as the chief artist of the Reformation. He painted altarpieces, Lutheran subject pictures and portraits, as well as mythological decorative works and nudes, such as the 'Cupid complaining to Venus' in the Collection.

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