Room 66

Lucas Cranach der Ältere

1472–1553, Germany (Kronach, Wittenberg), Northern Renaissance

Cranach was court painter to the Electors of Saxony in Wittenberg and ran one of the largest workshops of his time. He painted princes and reformers – his portrait of Martin Luther still shapes how we picture the reformer – as well as saints, figures of Venus and hunts. His woodcuts spread the images of the Reformation across Europe.

All works

• Portrait of a Woman
• Portrait of a Man
• The Nymph of the Spring
• Madonna and Child
• The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion
• A Princess of Saxony
• A Prince of Saxony
• The Penitence of Saint Jerome
• The Stag Hunt
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony
• The Virgin and Child Adored by Frederic the Wise of Saxony
• The Second Tournament with the Tapestry of Samson and the Lion
• The Celestial Ladder of Saint Bonaventura
• The Third Tournament
• Saint James the Greater
• The Holy Kinship
• Adam and Eve in Paradise
• Saint George Standing, with Two Angels
• Luther as 'Junker Jorg'
• The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
• Marcus Curtius Plunging into the Chasm
• Saint Paul
• Venus and Cupid
• Saint Bartholomew
• Saint Andrew
• Christ on the Mount of Olives
• The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
• The Entombment
• The Flagellation
• The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
• Ecce Homo
• The Resurrection
• Christ Taken Captive
• Christ before Annas
• The Judgment of Paris
• Christ before Herod
• Christ on the Cross Between the Virgin and Saint John
• Christian II of Denmark and Norway