Lucas Cranach the Elder was a famous artist and engraver of the German Renaissance who painted the landscape Hunting Near Hartenfels Castle in 1540. This very busy picture is filled with figures and action, as deer are chased into the river by hounds and mounted hunters to be shot in a broad landscape. Depicted in …
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In The Birth of John the Baptist, and early Lucas Cranach the Elder work, the newborn John the Baptist is being washed by maids in contemporary dress in a fine decorative and subtly colored composition. Behind is St. Anne lying on the bed. The washing of John in this scene looks forward to his baptizing …
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Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Judith with the Head of Holofernes is part of a sub-genre of the Northern Renaissance relating to the power of women. The story is biblical, where the Assyrian general is decapitated by Judith whose town he intends to destroy. Cranach’s Judith is calm, upright, and self-assured, in a contemporary aristocratic dress. …
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In a departure from his usual subject matter, Lucas Cranach the Elder here deals with ancient Greek mythology in The Nymph of the Fountain from 1534. Nymphs were minor female deities, usually associated with woodland or water. Here a young nude woman reclines in front of a fountain in the forest. Her eyes droop tiredly …
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Lucas Cranach the Elder paints in 1514 a portrait of Duke Henry the Pious IV, the Duke of Saxony (1473-1541) who adopted the Lutheran faith soon after Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in 1517. The expression of gravity and sternness of Cranach’s Duke here, as well as the hand gripping the hilt of his …
Charles de Solier was serving as French Ambassador at the time that this 1534-35 portrait by the German Hans Holbein the Younger was completed. He traveled to London in the summer of 1534, and the German painter working in England Hans Holbein the Younger had a reputation as one of the great portraitists of the …
This is a Portrait of Anne of Cleves, later a Queen of England by the German painter and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger. Portrait of Anne of Cleves Analysis Hans Holbein the Younger was hired by King Henry VIII to go to Düren in order to paint portraits of Anne and her sister Amalia. The …
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Madonna and Child with the Milk Soup is a 1510-1515 religious painting by artist of the Dutch Golden Age Gerard David. Analysis of Madonna and Child with the Milk Soup Nothern Netherlandish artist Gerard David painted a number of works that illustrate this same theme such as Madonna and Child with the Milk Soup. This …
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Sometimes also called ‘The Cripples’, Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted The Beggars towards the end of his career. It depicts a group of five crippled men, and a woman who appears to be able-bodied at the back who appears to be a beggar, with her head turned away from them. The strange painting …
Albrecht Durer’s Self-portrait at 28 (also known as Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe), painted in 1500, is a rare example of an early self-portrait which were extremely uncommon at the time. Durer was 28 at the time and is one of a number of similar paintings he produced during his lifetime. The text on the right-hand …
Portrait of a Lady is an oil painting by Antonis Mor, thought to have been painted between 1550 and 1575, and is of an unknown woman. The clothing worn by the woman suggests that the woman is Flemish, which aligns with the fact that Antonis Mor was a court painter in the Spanish Netherlands. This …
Ince Hall Madonna is a Northern Renaissance religious painting depicting Madonna and child by an unknown artist. Analysis of the Ince Hall Madonna The Ince Hall Madonna is thought to have been painted between 1450 and 1475 either as a copy of a now-lost Jan van Eyck or by his workshop. The painting depicts Mary …
