Portraits of Johannes Cuspinian and his wife Lucas Cranach the Elder wrote in 1503-1504 g. Then the young artist lived in Vienna. At that time it was the center of humanistic culture, there lived and worked well-known scientists, experts in antiquity, physicians, mathematicians, historians, writers. Here Cranach met with humanists and created a number of remarkable portraits. Portraits of the medical and historiographer of the 29-year-old doctor Johann Cuspinian and his 16-year-old wife Anna are rightly considered to be among the best in the old German painting.
The artist created vivid images of people of the Renaissance era. A young humanist is depicted with a book in his hands amid a typically German landscape with a castle and a church on a mountain. A searching eye looks into the distance to experience the characteristic features of a new generation of German scientists. The young wife has a focused look, even a little stern. Apparently the artist thus showed her searches and reflections.
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