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Cranach
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Cranach
Lucas , known as the Elder, real name Lucas Müller. 1472--1553, German painter, etcher, and designer of woodcuts


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DR SUSAN FOISTER of the National Gallery will be talking about the role of Lucas Cranach the Elder in the early 16th-century court of Saxony, Germany and Hans Holbein the Younger in London in a talk tomorrow at Compton Verney at 1pm.
JJ) Lucas Cranach the Elder - Lamentation Beneath the Cross (1503) The bodies of the three men nailed to crosses are broken, tortured and ugly: Cranach reveals the horrific antithesis of the beautiful Renaissance nude, the body wrecked and dying, ruinous prison of the soul.
It is the largest display of the pictures of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) ever seen in this country, with over ninety panel-paintings and 23 works on paper, mostly of impeccable provenance.
 
 
 
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