Lucas Cranach the Elder

One of the greatest artists of sixteenth-century Germany, Lucas Cranach the Elder employed his talents in a variety of genres, including portraiture, etching, engraving, draughtsmanship, and painting-more than 1,000 works are attributed to his studio. High quality reproductions of a generous sampling of his works are given close inspection in this volume that brings into context Cranach`s contribution to the religious and secular societies in which he lived. Mirela Proske examines the full array of Cranach`s oeuvre - the portraits and female nudes for which he is most famous; his religious and mythological works; his hunting and nature scenes. Tracing the artist`s life from his childhood in Kronach to his years in Vienna, Wittenberg, and Weimar, she paints a vivid portrait of a rapidly changing world and a brilliant artist whose faith grounded his vocation.