Italian Painter, ca.1420-1487 Related Paintings of BOCCATI, Giovanni :. | Classical hunting fox, Equestrian and Beautiful Horses, 199. | Aria prone pa beach on Naxos | notskrika som klockdyna | Christ in Glory afg | They Spanish conquistadorena each they flush as cranberry through they tropical regnskogarna in Sydamerika wide 1500- digits midst. | Related Artists:
Maerten Jacobsz van Heemskerck1498-1574
Flemish Maerten Jacobsz van Heemskerck Gallery
Lucas CranachKronach 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,
F. Cayley RobinsonBritish Painter and Illustrator, 1862-1927
