Lucas the Elder Cranach
1472 – 1553
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and graphic artist who excelled in portraits and in female nudes. He was the foremost member of the family of artists by that name active in Saxony during the 16th century. Lucas Cranach adopted his surname from his birthplace, Kronach, a town of Upper Franconia in the diocese of Bamberg.
291 artworks in collection
Locations
Works

Lucretia
Private collection1510
Madonna and Child with the Infant St John
Private collection1512
Portraits of Henry the Pious, Duke of Saxony and his wife Katharina von Mecklenburg
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden1514
Apostles Peter and Paul
Private collection1515
Donor Portraits of Frederick the Wise and John the Steadfast
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg1515
Martin Luther as an Augustinian Monk in a Doctoral Hat
Private collection1520
Christ's Head with Crown of Thorns
Private collection1520
Portrait of Elector Frederick the Wise in his Old Age
Private collection1525
The Bocca della Verità
Private collection1525
The Bocca della Verità (detail)
Private collection1525
Landscape (fragment)
Private collection1525
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as St Jerome in His Study (detail)
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt1525
Portrait of a Young Woman
Private collection1525
Venus and Cupid
Private collection1525
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as St Jerome in His Study (detail)
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota1526
Portrait Diptych of Martin Luther and his Wife Katharina von Bora
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt1529
Hercules and Antaeus
Private collection1530
Portrait of Elector Frederick the Wise
Private collection1530
Portrait of Elector John the Steadfast
Private collection1530
The Faun Family
Private collection1531
Portraits of Johann I and Frederick III the Wise, Electors of Saxony
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence1533
Friedrich III, the Wise, and Johann I, the Constant, Electors of Saxony
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York1533
Young Christ Adored by St John the Baptist
Private collection1534
David and Bathsheba (detail)
Private collection1534
David and Bathsheba
Private collection1534
Virgin and Child with Grapes
Private collection1534
Virgin and Child with Grapes
Private collection1537
Virgin and Child
Private collection1540





































































































































































































































































