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 )

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In 2004 the Kimbell Art Museum purchased a panel painting of the Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder, datable c. 1512-14 (Fig. 2). The painting's condition is testimony to the artist's superb technique: in near pristine state, it has all its glazes and modelling intact, allowing us to appreciate Cranach's masterful execution of details, such as the eyelashes of the horse, the minute figures in the background approaching the castle and his winged-serpent signature device in the lower left. The panel's whereabouts are unknown before its ...

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