Coleção: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm.

Born: 1472, Kronach, Germany
Died: October 16, 1553, Weimar, Germany
On view: Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art
Periods: Northern Renaissance, Renaissance, German Renaissance
Full name: Lucas Maler