Cranach (der Ältere), Lucas

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, portrait at age 77, c. 1550, by Lucas Cranach the Younger. Oil on panel, 67 × 49 cm. Uffizi Gallery, Florence (Source: Wikimedia)

Image source

Wikimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d._%C3%84._063.jpg

Basic data

  1. between January 1, 1471 and December 31, 1473 in Kronach
  2. †
    October 16, 1553 in Weimar
  3. Maler, Graphiker, Ratsherr, Bürgermeister
  4. Wittenberg, Weimar

Iconography

Lucas Cranach the Elder, portrait at age 77, c. 1550, by Lucas Cranach the Younger. Oil on panel, 67 × 49 cm. Uffizi Gallery, Florence (Source: Wikimedia)
Signature of Cranach the Elder from 1508 on a winged snake with ruby ring, depicted in a 1514 portrait (Source: Wikimedia)
Apollo and Diana, 1530 (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Martin Luther, 1529 (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, c. 1530–1535 (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Martin Luther, 1526, The Phoebus Foundation (Source: Wikimedia)
Den gylne tidsalder, Gullalderen (The Golden Age), 1530, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Source: Wikimedia)
Hunting near Hartenfels castle, 1540 (Source: Wikimedia)
Adam and Eve, woodcut, 1509 (Source: Wikimedia)
Study for portrait of Margaret of Pomerania (1518–1569), c. 1545, a drawing with all details of the sitter's costume meticulously described, was intended for the future reference and to facilitate the work on large number of commissions in the artist's atelier. (Source: Wikimedia)
Allegory of Law and Grace, c. 1529 (Source: Wikimedia)
Hercules Relieving Atlas of the Globe, c. 1530, National Gallery of Art (Source: Wikimedia)
The Fountain of Youth (Der Jungbrunnen), 1546 (Source: Wikimedia)
Torgauer Altar, 1509, Städel Museum, Frankfurt (Source: Wikimedia)
(Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des Lucas Cranach, Johann Adolf Rossmäßler - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Lucas Cranach, Johann Friedrich Bolt - 1813 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Lucas Cranach, Johann Adolf Rossmäßler - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Lucas Cranach, Moritz Steinla - 1806/1858 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Lucas Cranach, Johann Pleikard Bitthäuser (zugeschrieben) - 1820/1850 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Lucas Krannach, Joachim von Sandrart (der Ältere) - 1675 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Lucas Cranach, Johann Adolf Rossmäßler - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Lucas Cranach, Johann Adolf Rossmäßler - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Lucas Cranach, Bernigeroth, Johann Martin - 1761 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Luca Kranach, Antonio Piatti - um 1795 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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