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Lucas Cranach Portrait of a woman Date 1526(1526)
Medium Oil on wood
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Lucas Cranach Salome Date ca. 1530(1530)
Medium Oil on poplar
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Lucas Cranach Elector John the Constant of Saxony Date 1526(1526)
Medium Oil on linden
Dimensions Height: 57 cm (22.4 in). Width: 37 cm (14.6 in).
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Lucas Cranach Portrait of a Young Man Date first half of 16th century
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 30.5 cm (12 in). Width: 23 cm (9.1 in).
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Lucas Cranach Kreuzigung Christi Date 1503(1503)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 138 x 99 cm (54.3 x 39 in)
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Lucas Cranach Salome Date c. 1530(1530)
Medium Oil on poplar
Dimensions Height: 87 cm (34.3 in). Width: 58 cm (22.8 in).
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Lucas Cranach The Rest on The Flight into Egypt Date 1504(1504)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 70,7 x 53 cm
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Lucas Cranach Portrait of a woman 1526(1526)
Medium Oil on wood
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Lucas Cranach Venus Standing in a Landscape 1529(1529)
Medium Oil on wood
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Lucas Cranach Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb Date c. 1531(1531)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 169 cm (66.5 in). Width: 67 cm (26.4 in).
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Lucas Cranach The Three Graces Date 1535(1535)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 50.5 cm (19.9 in). Width: 35.7 cm (14.1 in).
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Lucas Cranach Salome 1530(1530)
Medium Oil on poplar
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Lucas Cranach Portrait of Emperor Charles V Date 1533(1533)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 51.2 x 36 cm (20.2 x 14.2 in)
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Lucas Cranach The Law and the Gospel Date 1529(1529)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 72 x 88.5 cm (28.3 x 34.8 in)
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Lucas Cranach Virgin and Child under an Apple Tree between 1525(1525) and 1530(1530)
Medium Oil on canvas transferred from panel
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Lucas Cranach Apollo and Diana in forest landscape Date 1530(1530)
Medium English: Oil on wood
Dimensions Deutsch: 51,8 x 36,6 cm
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Lucas Cranach The Princesses Sibylla, Emilia and Sidonia of Saxony (Detail of portrait of Sidonia c. 1535(1535)
Medium Oil on wood
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Lucas Cranach Saints Christina and Ottilia oil on linden
Dimensions Height: 123 cm (48.4 in). Width: 67 cm (26.4 in).
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Lucas Cranach Portrait of a Woman oil on beech
Dimensions Height: 35.9 cm (14.1 in). Width: 25.1 cm (9.9 in).
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Lucas Cranach The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion. 1538
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 61.6 x 42.2 cm (24.3 x 16.6 in)
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Lucas Cranach
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Kronach 1472-Weimar 1553
German painter and engraver. The son of a painter, he settled in Wittenberg c.1504 and was court painter successively under three electors of Saxony. There he maintained a flourishing workshop and was twice burgomaster. Cranach was a close friend of Martin Luther, whose doctrine he upheld in numerous paintings and woodcuts, and he has been called the painter of the Reformation. He was a rapid and prolific painter, and the work turned out by his studio is uneven in quality. Naïve and fanciful, often awkward in draftsmanship, it has, nonetheless, freshness and originality and a warm, rich palette. His portraits are particularly successful. Among his best-known works are Repose in Egypt (Gemäldgalerie, Staatliche Mus., Berlin-Dahlem); Judgment of Paris (Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe); Adam and Eve (Courtauld Inst., London); and Crucifixion (Weimar). The latter contains figures of Luther and Cranach. His many famous protraits include those of Elector John Frederick and Self-Portrait (Uffizi). Cranach was also an accomplished miniaturist. He produced a few copperplates and designs for woodcuts. His son and pupil Lucas Cranach, the Younger,
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