Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1472-1553
Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1472-1553

Author: Alexander Stepanov

Publisher: Parkstone Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Numerous color and b & w reproductions from mostly European and a few US museums, reinforce the commentary of Stepanov (St. Petersburg Institute of Art History) on Cranach the Elder as a German Renaissance master. Though not as well known as his Catholic Italian contemporaries, Protestant Cranach bequeathed a legacy of diverse works on religious and secular subjects (hunting scenes are notable) and painting techniques which influenced generations of artists. As a court artist (for Frederick the Wise, Saxony), he also designed costumes, furniture, and parade-ground arms. Includes a chronology of the works of Cranach and his notable peers, but no index. 9.5x12.5" c. Book News Inc

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Author: Bonnie Noble

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 076184337X

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Law and gospel and the strategies of pictorial rhetoric -- The Schneeberg altarpiece and the structure of worship -- The Wittenberg altarpiece : communal devotion and identity -- Holy visions and pious testimony: Weimar altarpiece -- Public worship to private devotion : Cranach's Reformation Madonna panels.

Lucas Cranach, the Elder
Lucas Cranach, the Elder

Author: Gunnar Heydenreich

Publisher: Leiden University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789053567456

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The first richly illustrated study of the working methods and materials used by one of the most inventive painters of Renaissance Germany

Lucas Cranach
Lucas Cranach

Author: Jennifer Nelson

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2024-06-05

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1789148936

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A revealing new account of the life and work of this early modern German printmaker. This captivating biography brings Lucas Cranach the Elder into the spotlight for the twenty-first century. The illuminating narrative unveils an artist whose vision transcended personal brilliance, seeking rather to elevate his nascent nation. Perhaps Cranach’s most remarkable achievement lay in forging a robust Lutheran community around his work. Using prints, the prevailing medium of mass communication, he developed an intricate symbolism that resonated with the populace in early modern Germany. On the other hand, Cranach also produced many paintings of female nudes, which this book returns to their central place in the artist’s life as symbols of Germany’s rich cultural connections with ancient Greece and Rome.

Lucas Cranach
Lucas Cranach

Author: Teresa Präauer

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag

Published: 2024-08-02

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 3775758879

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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.

Lucas Cranach
Lucas Cranach

Author: Bodo Brinkmann

Publisher: Royal Academy Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13:

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One of the most versatile artists of the German Renaissance and a close friend of Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) is the archetypal painter of the Reformation. His activities as a painter, printmaker, and book illustrator reveal a distinctly individual style, and his skill in many different media helped him to create a highly successful workshop. Financially more successful than his contemporary Albrecht Durer, Cranach's influence on the development of German painting was profound. His outstanding gifts are evident not only in his portrayal of landscape, animals, and the female nude, but also in devotional paintings and portraiture, in his later work as chief propagandist of the Protestant cause, and in his inventive treatments of biblical and mythological subjects. Published to accompany a major traveling exhibition, this handsome publication stimulates our appreciation of the artist by bringing together works of many different themes, both sacred and profane, notable for their originality. Superbly illustrated throughout, the book contains seven insightful essays by leading authorities.

The Antichrist
The Antichrist

Author: Lucas Cranach The Elder

Publisher:

Published: 2011-06

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781770832176

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Lucas Cranach the Elder (Lucas Cranach der Altere, 4 October 1472 - 16 October 1553), was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm, becoming a close friend of Martin Luther. He also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued throughout his career to paint nude subjects drawn from mythology and religion. He had a large workshop and many works exist in different versions; his son Lucas Cranach the Younger, and others, continued to create versions of his father's works for decades after his death.

Temptation in Eden
Temptation in Eden

Author: Lucas Cranach

Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition in Britain to be devoted to Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), one of the greatest German Renaissance painters.

Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Author: Charles Zika

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-11

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9004475915

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This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.