Cranach Archives

Lucas Cranach (c. 1472-1553) was a German Renaissance printmaker and court painter to the Electorate of Saxony. Cranach's paintings range from depictions of mythology and nudity, to German royalty and Protestant Reformation leaders as well as religious subjects in both Catholic and Lutheran approaches. More than one thousand paintings and several versions of select paintings exist in part by Cranach's developments in technique that hastened his work as well as his workshop and sons Hans and Lucas Cranach the Younger, who preserved Cranach's aesthetic and creative autonomy. Archive

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Nymph at the Source, ca. 1537 - Version II

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Lucretia, ca. 1537

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes (detail), date unknown

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes, date unknown

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Samson and Deliah, 1537

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The Awakened Hercules and the Pygmies, 1551

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The Sleeping Hercules and the Pygmies, 1551

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David and Bathsheba, 1537

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Three Pairs of Lovers, 1537

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Christ Blessing the Children (detail), 1540

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Christ Blessing the Children, 1540

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The Feast of Herod, 1537

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The Feast of Herod, 1533

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The Feast of Herod, 1531

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Princess Sibylle of Cleves (portrait detail)

Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Adam and Eve in Paradise or The Fall (detail), 1533 - Original

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Christ and the Adulteress (detail), ca. 1530-1550 - Original