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Lucas Cranach Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb oil painting reproduction


Lucas Cranach

Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb

Date c. 1531(1531) Medium Oil on wood Dimensions Height: 169 cm (66.5 in). Width: 67 cm (26.4 in). cjr
Painting ID::  87604
 

 

Lucas Cranach
Kronach 1472-Weimar 1553 German painter and engraver. The son of a painter, he settled in Wittenberg c.1504 and was court painter successively under three electors of Saxony. There he maintained a flourishing workshop and was twice burgomaster. Cranach was a close friend of Martin Luther, whose doctrine he upheld in numerous paintings and woodcuts, and he has been called the painter of the Reformation. He was a rapid and prolific painter, and the work turned out by his studio is uneven in quality. Naïve and fanciful, often awkward in draftsmanship, it has, nonetheless, freshness and originality and a warm, rich palette. His portraits are particularly successful. Among his best-known works are Repose in Egypt (Gemäldgalerie, Staatliche Mus., Berlin-Dahlem); Judgment of Paris (Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe); Adam and Eve (Courtauld Inst., London); and Crucifixion (Weimar). The latter contains figures of Luther and Cranach. His many famous protraits include those of Elector John Frederick and Self-Portrait (Uffizi). Cranach was also an accomplished miniaturist. He produced a few copperplates and designs for woodcuts. His son and pupil Lucas Cranach, the Younger,
Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb
Date c. 1531(1531) Medium Oil on wood Dimensions Height: 169 cm (66.5 in). Width: 67 cm (26.4 in). cjr

        
   
 

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