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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
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WE all know of Hans Holbein, the German who became court painter
to Henry VIII and set standards for both formal and intimate
portraiture that not one of his English successors ever equalled.
We know too of Albrecht Drer, the German painter who, more than
any other, forged connections between the Italian Renaissance and
the art of central Europe, a man internationally reputable enough to
exchange drawings with Raphael. But do we know of Lucas Cranach, the
third grandee of 16th century German art, born in 1472, a year or so
after Drer and 25 years before Holbein but long outliving both? I ...
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The prime of Lucas Cranach.(Brief biography)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...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...
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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
; ...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...
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Cranach at the Royal Academy.(exhibition of Lucas Cranach's pictures)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...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...
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soft porn and piety Temptation in Eden: Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; 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...
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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
; ...the small but exquisite show of Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve at the Courtauld...so respected. Born circa 1472, Cranach was a contemporary of Dorer. He...courts and bourgeoisie of Germany, Cranach was noted above all for his nudes...
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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
; ...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...
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Art note: the provenance of Cranach's 'Cupid complaining to Venus'.(Lucas Cranach)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; 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...
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Lucas Cranach Courtauld Institute ; Five best London shows
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; 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
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Animals in Eden: the Courtauld Gallery's Cranach exhibition is a tightly focused revelation of his individual genius.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...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...
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Finding God in the details; STYLISH SLAUGHTER: Cranach's The Martyrdom Of St Catherine, painted around 1506.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...career of thegreat German painter Lucas Cranach. You probably would assume that...portraitthan a religious icon. Cranach is always an exact and an exquisite...calls to you across a room.. Lucas Cranach Royal Academy, London Until June...
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