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Lucas Cranach
A–Z
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Author: Teresa Präauer
Translations: Shaun Whiteside
Graphic Design: Torsten Köchlin
English
July 2022
,
120
Pages, 37 Ills.
Hardcover
138mm x
204mm
ISBN:
978-3-7757-5180-3
Painter Prince of the Renaissance
Lucas Cranach the Elder created around 500 works during his lifetime. With his portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchton and as court painter to Frederick the Wise, he became one of the most sought-after painters of the Reformation. At the same time, Cranach was the first to translate the Italian Renaissance tradition of the life-size nude into art north of the Alps; his lascivious, barely veiled depiction of Venus, the goddess of love, bears witness to this. On the occasion of the large Cranach exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Austrian writer Teresa Präauer explores the work of this busy prince of painters from A to Z. She focuses not only on Cranach's art, but also on the society that surrounded him, the subjects he painted, and the events that shaped his development.
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