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Reformers.(Lucas Cranach's art exhibit)
Is it just me, or have the Old Masters got younger lately? If so, it may be because present anxieties about the state and the fate of Western civilization echo past ones, when artists were energized around big issues, such as clashes of modernizing and medievalist mind-sets, which may never have been completely settled. Consider a rousing retrospective of the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), which has opened at the Stadel Museum, in Frankfurt, and will travel in the spring to the Royal Academy, in London. There are contemporary tangs to this most bewildering paragon of a cohort which included the Leonardoesque Albrecht Durer and the dazzling ...
- The prime of Lucas Cranach.(Brief biography)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Bruce, Donald June 22, 2007 700+ words
...Basel everything accessible by Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) and his School...headquarters of the little state. That Lucas Cranach was a well-educated man, particularly...that period of ad hoc surnames, Lucas Cranach probably derived his name from...
- Cranach im Exil. Aschaffenburg um 1540: Zuflucht, Schatzkammer, Residenz.(Lucas...
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Noble, Bonnie J. June 22, 2008 700+ words
...1948-6. Gunnar Heydenreich. Lucas Cranach the Elder: Painting Materials...745-6. The historiography of Lucas Cranach the Elder extends back to the...Ermischer and Andreas Tacke, and Lucas Cranach the Elder: Painting Materials...
- Cranach at the Royal Academy.(exhibition of Lucas Cranach's pictures)(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Bruce, Donald June 22, 2008 700+ words
...Academy's sumptuous exhibition, Cranach, has been an occasion for rejoicing...largest display of the pictures of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) ever seen...scholarly although summary catalogue of Cranach's pictures, published in 1932...
- Pleasure & politics: Cranach's the judgement of Paris: the Kimbell recently...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Edwards, Nancy E. October 1, 2007 700+ words
...painting of the Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder, datable c. 1512-14...intact, allowing us to appreciate Cranach's masterful execution of details...Kimbell's collection (Fig. 1). Cranach's painting was influenced by accounts...
- Art note: the provenance of Cranach's 'Cupid complaining to Venus'.(Lucas...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Bruce, Donald June 22, 2008 700+ words
The Elder Lucas Cranach's painting of Cupid, stung by bees...in preparation for a notice, 'A New Cranach at the National Gallery', which appeared...Rosenberg's monumental catalogue of Cranach's paintings (first published in Berlin...
- Animals in Eden: the Courtauld Gallery's Cranach exhibition is a tightly...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Bartrum, Giulia September 1, 2007 700+ words
...to another great German renaissance artist, Lucas Cranach. Born in Kronach, Bavaria, Cranach became court painter to the Elector Frederick...family. Stimulated by Durer's early prints, Cranach also played a pivotal role in the aesthetic...
- Cranach, Lucas (1472–1553)
- Reference information from: The Renaissance January 1, 2008 700+ words
Cranach, Lucas (1472 – 1553) A German...produced Bibles and tracts written by Luther. Cranach and Luther became friends, with Luther sitting for several famous portraits and Cranach printing woodcuts and tracts meant to spread...
- FROM THE HOLBEIN'S TO CRANACH: PICTURES FROM BASEL AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Bruce, Donald August 1, 2000 700+ words
...did not add the loveliest of them all, Cranach's Judgement of Paris of 1528. The pictures...return from the gallery's basement of Cranach's exquisite and whimsical Caritas...the history of Art from the headsman in Cranach's Martyrdom of St Catherine to the vile...