Lucas Cranach the Elder: Venus and Cupid

This study provides the first comprehensive description of the materials, techniques and studio practices of German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder. Gunnar Heydenreich draws on detailed technical examination of Cranach’s paintings, as well as analysis of documentary sources, to explain the characteristic elements of more than three hundred of Cranach’s ...more

One of the greatest artists of the sixteenth-century, 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 ...more