He had a large workshop and many works exist in different versions ; his son Lucas Cranach the Younger, and others, continued to create versions of his father's works for decades after his death.

Towards the end of his life, after Luther's initial hostility to large public religious images had softened, Cranach painted a number of " Lutheran altarpieces " of the Last Supper and other subjects, in which Christ was shown in a traditional manner, including a halo, but the apostles, without halos, were portraits of leading reformers.

The Utraquist churches had retained the use of relics and images in church, but Scultetus now launched an iconoclastic crusade against images: beginning on 21 December 1619, images were removed from St. Vitus Cathedral, and on 27 – 28 December, a famous altarpiece by Lucas Cranach the Younger depicting the Virgin Mary was destroyed.

This union produced three daughters and two sons, including Augustin Cranach.

With a provenance dating back to Philip II's collection are the two panels by Hans Baldung Grien, Harmony or The Three Graces and The Ages of Man, and two works by Lucas Cranach the Elder: Hunt in Honour of Charles V at the Castle of Torgau and Hunt in Honour of Ferdinand I, King of the Romans, at the Castle of Torgau.

The most important works include Maso di Banco's Coronation of the Virgin, Sassetta's Saint Thomas Aquinas at Prayer, Domenico Ghirlandaio's Saint Stephen Martyr, Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Caterina Cornaro, Giorgione's Portrait of a Young Man, Raphael's Esterhazy Madonna, Correggio's Madonna and Child with an Angel, three works by Sebastiano del Piombo, Bronzino's Adoration of the Shepherds as well as his Venus, Cupid and Jealousy, Titian's Portrait of Doge Marcantonio Trevisani, Tintoretto's Supper at Emmaus, Tiepolo's St James the Greater in the Battle of Clavijo, Dürer's Portrait of a Young Man, Bernard van Orley's Portrait of Emperor Charles V, eight pictures by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's St John the Baptist Preaching, Rubens's Mucius Scaevola Before Porsenna, two excellent portraits by Frans Hals, and a particularly strong collection of works by Spanish masters including El Greco, Velázquez and Goya.

The Behams catalogued below, which Scharf's erroneously ascribed to Mielich, were appropriately complemented by portraits by two of the artist's German contemporaries, Cranach and Hans Krell.

They responded both to past artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald and Lucas Cranach the Elder, as well as contemporary international avant-garde movements.

Among them are Alexander Calder's Eagle ( 1971 ) and Richard Serra's Wake ( 2004 ), both at the Olympic Sculpture Park ; the aforementioned Hammering Man ; Cai Guo-Qiang's Inopportune: Stage One ( 2004 ), a sculpture constructed from cars and sequenced multi-channel light tubes on display in the lobby of the SAM Downtown ; The Judgment of Paris ( c. 1516-18 ) by Lucas Cranach the Elder ; Mark Tobey's Electric Night ( 1944 ); Yéil X ' eenh ( Raven Screen ) ( c. 1810 ), attributed to the Tlingit artist Kadyisdu. axch '; Do-Ho Suh's Some / One ( 2001 ); and a coffin in the shape of a Mercedes Benz ( 1991 ) by Kane Quaye of Ghana.

Dürer's work on the book was halted for an unknown reason, and the decoration was continued by artists including Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Baldung.

In that period his works are influenced by artists such as Giorgione and Lucas Cranach, as shown by his Crucifixion.

The suicide of Lucretia has been an enduring subject for visual artists, including Titian, Rembrandt, Dürer, Raphael, Botticelli, Jörg Breu the Elder, Johannes Moreelse, Artemisia Gentileschi, Damià Campeny, Eduardo Rosales, Lucas Cranach the Elder and others.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

There are also paintings by German artists, including Hans Wertinger, Cranach the Elder, Barthel Bruyn the Elder, Caspar David Friedrich (" Moonrise Over Sea "), Anton Mengs, Hans Thoma, Anselm Feuerbach, Franz Stuck (" Two Men Fighting Over a Woman ") and Heinrich Campendonck.

Other significant artists were Lucas Cranach the Elder, the Danube School and the Little Masters.

Inside the church are the tombs of Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, and of the electors Frederick the Wise ( by Peter Vischer the Younger, 1527 ) and John the Constant ( by Hans Vischer ), and portraits of the reformers by Lucas Cranach the Younger.

He was the youngest son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Barbara Brengebier, and began his career as an apprentice in his father's workshop alongside his brother Hans.

This accounts for the comparative unproductiveness as painters of Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein the Younger, and also may explain why Cranach was not especially skilled at handling colour, light, and shade.

* Posse, Hans ( 1942 ) Lucas Cranach d. ä.

Other printmakers to use the technique include Cranach, Hans Baldung Grien and Parmigianino.

Other printmakers to use the technique include Cranach, Hans Wechtlin, Hans Baldung Grien and Parmigianino.

Also represented are magnificent examples of such Northern European masters as Lucas Cranach the Elder, Dieric Bouts and Hans Memling.

: Among many others the Pinakothek shows works of Stefan Lochner (" Adoration of the Christ Child by the Virgin ( The Nativity )"), Albrecht Dürer (" The Four Apostles ", " Paumgartner Altar ", " Self-portrait in Fur Coat "), Hans Baldung Grien (" Markgrave Christoph of Baden "), Albrecht Altdorfer (" The Battle of Issus "), Cranach (" Lamentation Beneath the Cross "), Holbein (" St. Sebastian Altar ; Central panel: Martyrdom of St. Sebastian "), Matthias Grünewald (" SS.

In miniatures the works of Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein and Lucas Cranach were used.

Cranach was to remain in the service of the Elector and his successors for the rest of his life, although he was able to undertake other work.

The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach the Elder | Lucas Cranach, a 16th-century German depiction of Eden, with the tree of life ( left ) and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

In spite of his studies under various masters, his art has little in common with modern ideas, and is formed partly by his early impressions of the simple idyllic life of his native district, partly by his sympathy with the early German masters, particularly with Altdorfer and Cranach.

Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the so called Danube School setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours.

Not surprisingly, the gallery is especially strong in Baroque paintings and includes notable works by Rubens, Tintoretto, Veronese, Cranach, Gerard David, Murillo, Mattia Preti, Ribera, van Dyck, and Doré.

A dog noted as being a Gazelle Hound is featured in a painting of Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, painted in 1514, by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Wittenberg is home to numerous important historical artifacts, as well as portraits and other paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Younger.

Antichristus ( 1521 ) by Lucas Cranach the Elder is a woodcut of the Papal States at war during the Renaissance. During this period the city of Avignon itself was added to the Papal States ; it remained a papal possession even after the popes returned to Rome, being seized and incorporated into the by then unitary French state only during the French Revolution.

How Cranach was trained is not known, but it was probably with local south German masters, as with his contemporary Matthias Grünewald, who worked at Bamberg and Aschaffenburg ( Bamberg is the capital of the diocese in which Kronach lies ).

Cranach, like his patron, was friendly with the Protestant Reformers at a very early stage ; yet it is difficult to fix the time of his first meeting with Martin Luther.

As Cranach wrote from his house to the grand-master Albert of Brandenburg at Königsberg to tell him of John Frederick's capture, he showed his attachment by saying, I cannot conceal from your Grace that we have been robbed of our dear prince, who from his youth upwards has been a true prince to us, but God will help him out of prison, for the Kaiser is bold enough to revive the Papacy, which God will certainly not allow.

One of them is Barbara Cranach, who died in 1569, married to Christian Brück ( Pontanus ), ancestors of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Cranach is honoured together with Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on August 5.

The oldest extant picture by Cranach is the Rest of the Virgin during the Flight into Egypt, of 1504.

One of his last works is the altarpiece, completed after his death by Lucas Cranach the Younger in 1555, for the Stadtkirche ( city church ) at Weimar.

* Hercules und Omphale is a painting by the 16th century German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.

For instance, in Lucas Cranach the Elder's " Adam and Eve " different scenes of the Biblical story are shown in the same painting: on the front, God is admonishing the couple for their sin ; in the background to the right are shown the earlier scenes of Eve's creation from Adam's rib and of their being tempted to eat the forbidden fruit ; on the left is the later scene of their expulsion from Paradise.

The European iconography is fairly consistent, as the Cranach painting and mirror-case from 200 years earlier demonstrate: old people, often carried, enter at left, strip, and enter a pool that is as large as space allows.

The Antichrist, by Lucas Cranach the Elder ( 1521 ) Here the Antichrist is shown wearing the triple crown of the Roman papacy.

The Protestant theologian Philipp Melanchthon is one of the few contemporary writers to refer to Grünewald, who is rather puzzlingly described as " moderate " in style, when compared with Dürer and Cranach ; what paintings this judgement is based on is uncertain.