Paintings of Cranach on religious themes and mythological subjects are most often populated by blond and white-haired beauties. In them, now with the baby on his hands, then naked, the

One of the custom-made works of the master, a genre-specific painting depicting the favorite entertainment of his august patrons – the hunt for deer. The strength of these “hunts” is

The official and lush portraits include ceremonial wedding portraits of the Saxon Duke Henry the Pious and his wife Catherine of Mecklenburg. Portraits of the Duke of Saxony and his

“Portrait of Frederick the Wise”. His patron Lucas Cranach the Elder captured in a beautiful engraved portrait. The modest features of this strong and courageous man betray sincere piety. The

The Christian religion says that God created as the first man. so he made sure that a man lived freely on the earth, and created in the east a paradise

Lucas Cranach wrote many portraits of his contemporaries. Especially popular during this period were double portraits. A double portrait in art is called a diptych. As a rule, the members

The artist depicts Calvary in an unusual perspective. He shifts the traditional emotional and semantic center, crucifixion, aside and writes Christ almost in profile, and the face of one of

Portrait of Johann-Frederick the Magnanimous. This work is executed in a characteristic style for that period and has undoubted artistic merit. The name of Johann Friedrich is surprising. The conciliator

On the one hand, this is a historical picture, because it depicts a concrete case – a hunt, arranged by the kurfust Frederick the Wise in honor of the Emperor

The theme of the picture is immortality and eternal youth, a mystical faith in the purifying and life-giving force of water. To the source belonging to Venus and Cupid, come

Lucas Cranach the Elder created many paintings on antique subjects. These cabinet pictures were intended for the Kunstkammer, grandees or patricians and corresponded to the tastes of the German aristocracy.

The portrait of Princess Sibylla of Cleves was painted by the artist in 1526. This is the heyday of the art of Cranach. Painter occupies honorary posts at the court

The painting “Three Graces” was written in the artist’s studio of Lucas Cranach the Elder in the mid-30s of the 16th century. The size of the board is 50.5 x

Cranach created remarkable portraits of representatives of the burghers. He conveyed the individual traits of customers, penetrating into the depths of their characters and finding for their embodiment pictorial means,

This is the third part of the triptych “Martyrdom of St. Catherine”. The plot of the famous Christian legend. At one time in Alexandria, the rules reigned Catherine, who wanted