Neu in #StilvollGlauben: Kirchenasyl für ein Gemälde. Schon eine irre Geschichte. #NaumburgerDom #LucasCranach https://www.evangelisch.de/blogs/stilvoll-glauben/249102/04-11-2025

Воссоединение картины! — https://artguide.com/news/10279 #LucasCranach #LucasCranachtheElder #renaissance #oldmasters #JohntheBaptist #halfofthepainting #halfs #artnews

Un coup de blues ? Gare à la mélancolie, mère de tous les vices, nous dit Cranach ! Peintre phare de la Renaissance germanique, il a consacré à ce thème cher aux humanistes plusieurs tableaux. Parmi eux figure ce chef-d’œuvre : "La mélancolie". Scrutons d’un peu plus près ce traité anti-spleen aux couleurs flamboyantes, autant inspiré de l’iconographie d’Albrecht Dürer que des préceptes de Martin Luther :
https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/la-melancolie-de-cranach-un-flamboyant-remede-pour-contrer-le-spleen/
#Art #Peinture #LucasCranach

Our second Whore of Babylon is from the first edition of Martin Luther's Bible (1522) and is by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553). #woodcuts #woodcut #prints #print #whoreofbabylon #lucascranach

Some variations of the werewolf myth have the "werewolf" being a man so lost to his bestial instincts that he turns cannibal as in this c1510 woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c1472-1553). #lucascranachtheelder #lucascranach #woodcuts #woodcut #prints #print

Another amazingly detailed woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c1472-1553), although this one is a few years earlier (1506 or 1507). It shows a boar hunt. #lucascranachtheelder #lucascranach #woodcuts #woodcut #prints #print

An incredibly detailed woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c1472-1553) from 1509 showing knights fighting in a tournament as well as the spectators and some musicians. #lucascranachtheelder #lucascranach #woodcuts #woodcut #prints #print

Our focus this week is German artist and printmaker, Lucas Cranach the Elder (c1472-1553). He has an enormous body of surviving woodcuts. His Whore of Babylon from 1522 can be compared to the final print from last week. #lucascranachtheelder #lucascranach #woodcuts #woodcut #prints #print

Portrait of duchess Katharina von Mecklenburg, 1514 #cranach #lucascranach https://www.wikiart.org/en/lucas-cranach-the-elder/portrait-of-duchess-katharina-von-mecklenburg-1514

Portraits of Henry the Pious, Duke of Saxony and his wife Katharina von Mecklenburg, 1514 #lucascranachtheelder #lucascranach https://www.wikiart.org/en/lucas-cranach-the-elder/portraits-of-henry-the-pious-duke-of-saxony-and-his-wife-katharina-von-mecklenburg-1514