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	Cranach im Exil. Aschaffenburg um 1540: Zuflucht, Schatzkammer, Residenz.(Lucas Cranach the Elder: Painting Materials, Techniques and Workshop Practice)(Book review) Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2008; ; 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 essay) Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...sumptuous exhibition, Cranach, has been an occasion...display of the pictures of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553...drooping eagle's wings. Cranach shared the new signature with his second son Lucas the Younger, who was more...
	The prime of Lucas Cranach.(Brief biography) Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2007; ; 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...
	soft porn and piety Temptation in Eden: Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; Lucas Cranach's Eve is a lithe Germanic temptress...a number of related works, mostly by Cranach, some by his German contemporaries...clientele. After Holbein and Durer, Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) is the most celebrated...
	Pleasure & politics: Cranach's the judgement of Paris: the Kimbell recently acquired an extremely well preserved Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Nancy E. Edwards explores the painting's meaning and investigates the possibility that it was made for Hendrik III, Count of Nassau-Breda, whose portrait by Gossaert is also in the museum.(Kimbell Art Museum ) Magazine article from: Apollo; 10/1/2007; ; 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...
	Master copy ; The German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach painted the same themes time and again. But you can never have too much of a good thing, says Adrian Hamilton Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/23/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...but exquisite show of Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve at the...bourgeoisie of Germany, Cranach was noted above all for...of Europe produced by Lucas, his two sons and their...to prove how much more Cranach was than a panderer to...
	Trouble in Paradise ; The Courtauld Institute's Adam and Eve exhibition is a provocative introduction to Lucas Cranach's work but its meagreness leaves you wanting to learn more about this stereotypical German painter Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 7/13/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...with Raphael. But do we know of Lucas Cranach, the third grandee of 16th century...longer under his son, a second Lucas Cranach, who died in 1586. It was in...master, and from the year in which Lucas II (born 1515) became his father...
	Art note: the provenance of Cranach's 'Cupid complaining to Venus'.(Lucas Cranach)(Critical essay) Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2008; ; 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...
	Lucas Cranach Courtauld Institute ; Five best London shows Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/30/2007; ; 218 words ; A small survey of the German Renaissance painter. Adam and Eve has the primal pair softly hemmed by animals, foliage, birds and fruit. To 23 Sept
	Cranach the crude ; A new show at the Royal Academy celebrates a small German painter with a big reputation who remained parochial and primitive to the lastEXHIBITION OF THE WEEK Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/7/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...exhibition of paintings by Lucas Cranach, the first or Elder...The second son, Lucas II, born in 1515...facto head of the Cranach workshop by 1550...too, yet another Lucas, living on until...that pictures of the Cranach pattern, increasingly...

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	Cranach, Lucas the Elder Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Cranach, Lucas the Elder ( b Kronach...painted in 1504, just before Cranach moved to Wittenberg as court...Protestant Reformation and Cranach supported the Lutheran cause...was assisted by his son Lucas the Younger (1515–...
	Cranach, Lucas, ‘the Elder’ Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Cranach, Lucas, ‘the Elder’ (1472–1553). German artist whose altar-pieces, drawings, woodcuts, and...
	Cranach, Lucas Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Cranach, Lucas (1472–1553), ‘the Elder’, German painter. In his youth he was celebrated as a painter of altar-pieces and all his life of portraits. In the early days of the Reformation , he espoused the Lutheran cause.