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Cranach Lucas

The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

Yale University Press

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This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-reformer Martin Luther (the Lamb). Contemporaries and friends (each was godfather to the other’s children), Cranach and Luther were very different Germans, yet their collaborative successes merged art and religion into a revolutionary force that became the Protestant Reformation. Steven Ozment, an internationally recognized historian of the Reformation era, reprises the lives and works of Cranach (1472–1553) and Luther (1483–1546) in this generously illustrated book. He contends that Cranach's new art and Luther's oratory released a barrage of criticism upon the Vatican, the force of which secured a new freedom of faith and pluralism of religion in the Western world. Between Luther's pulpit praise of the sex drive within the divine estate of marriage and Cranach's parade of strong, lithe women, a new romantic, familial consciousness was born. The "Cranach woman" and the "Lutheran household"—both products of the merged Renaissance and Reformation worlds—evoked  a new organization of society and foretold a new direction for Germany.

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Ankele Publishing, LLC

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Lucas Cranach the Elder

BORN: October 4, 1472 in Kronach.
DIED: October 16, 1553 in Weimar.

MOVEMENT: Northern Renaissance

INTERESTING FACTS:

Cranach was taught drawing by his father Hans Maler.
In 1504, he was elected as court painter to the Duke of Saxony and maintained this position his entire life.
Prior to 1508, Cranach competed with Albrecht Durer, Hans Burgkmair and others, to paint several altar-pieces for the Castle Church at Wittenberg.
Cranach ran printing presses that were used by Martin Luther to print the Bible. He was also present as a witness to the betrothal festival of Luther and Katharina von Bora.

NOTABLE WORKS:
Portrait of Martin Luther (1533), Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous at the Age of Six, The Fountain of Youth, St Jerome in the Desert.

LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER Art Book contains 220+ Reproductions of Religious and Mythical, Portrait and Genre Scenes with title and date.
Lucas Cranach the Younger

Ankele Publishing, LLC

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Lucas Cranach the Younger

BORN: October 4, 1515 in Wittenberg, Germany.
DIED: January 25, 1586 in Weimar, Germany.

MOVEMENT: Northern Renaissance

INTERESTING FACTS:

Cranach the Younger was an apprentice to his father, Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Upon his father’s death, Cranach the Younger took control of his workshop.
Cranach the Younger’s painting style was so similar to his fathers, there have been challenges in the attribution of their works.
He followed in his father’s footsteps serving in high civic office. First as a Wittenberg City Councilman, then Chancellor, and finally appointed as Burgomaster.

NOTABLE WORKS:
Christ as the Man of Sorrows, Adam and Eve, Hunt in Honour of Charles V, Portrait of Philip Melanchthon.

LUCAS CRANACH THE YOUNGER Art Book contains 30+ Reproductions of Religious, Mythical, Portrait and Genre Scenes with title and date.
Lucas Cranach: A Different Renaissance

Ore Cultura Srl (Acc)

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Provides an overview of the relationship between Lucan Cranach and the Italian Renaissance.
Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation

University Press Of America

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This book presents Cranach's Reformation painting to a broader audience and explains the pictorial strategies Cranach devised to clarify and interpret Lutheran thought. For specialists in Reformation history, this study offers an interpretation of Cranach's art as an agent of religious change. For historians and students of Renaissance art, this study explores the defining work of a major sixteenth-century artist.
The Bible in Pictures: Illustrations from the Workshop of Lucas Cranach (1534)

TASCHEN America Llc

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The complete 117 images that triggered a religious revolution



Martin Luther's Bible, published in 1534, was the first complete German Bible and a pivotal event in the history of Christianity. Luther's revolutionary translation, modern in vernacular and interpretation, made the Bible accessible to laypeople, fueled anger and revulsion toward Rome and the Papacy, and begat a new religion: Protestantism. The most desirable copies came with shockingly graphic and politically-charged illustrations, such as those depicting the Whore of Babylon riding a seven-headed beast while wearing the Papal crown, or the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse led by a Turkish soldier. TASCHEN is publishing the 117 hand-colored woodcut illustrations, created in the workshop of Lucas Cranach. Each is meticulously reproduced from a rare and sumptuous original copy, belonging to the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar. Stephan Füssel provides a scholarly overview of Luther's life, the historic context and cultural significance of his Bible, and detailed descriptions of the illustrations and their iconography.

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The Norton Simon Museum is battling t...
Los Angeles Times - Aug 21, 2009
The Norton Simon Museum is battling t... The Norton Simon Museum is battling to keep 'Adam' and 'Eve'STAYING PUT: "Adam and Eve" painted by german artist Lucas Cranach the Elder around 1530. (unknown / August 20, 2009) By Suzanne Muchnic She is a beguiling One more battle for Norton Simon's 'Adam' and 'Eve'all 2 news articles »

Appeals court overturns Holocaust loo...
Los Angeles Times - Aug 20, 2009
Appeals court overturns Holocaust loo... San Francisco ChronicleAppeals court overturns Holocaust looted-art lawDoes the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena really own one of the most prized works hanging in its galleries, Lucas Cranach the Elder's depiction of Adam and California's Nazi Art Law UnconstitutionalAppeals court orders new look at looted art caseCourt Strikes Down Law Extending Time to Sue Over Stolen Art - -all 37 news articles »

Going His Way
Washington Post - Jul 31, 2009
Going His Way The paintings of Lucas Cranach are also prominently on display. Known as the "photographer of the Reformation," Cranach painted Luther many times. Retracing Martin Luther's Stepsall 3 news articles »

Trailing Martin Luther
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Aug 22, 2009
The paintings of Lucas Cranach also are prominently on display. Known as the "photographer of the Reformation," Cranach painted Luther many times.

Legal Update: Internet Pornography
KPBS - Aug 24, 2009
Maureen, by a 16th century artist by the name of Lucas Cranach the Elder and it was – these paintings were alleged to have been looted by the Nazis.