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All art libraries should have this notable book. Please view the photographs as to conditions. Physical description; 476 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. Notes; Translation of Die Malerfamilie Cranach. Includes reproductions of works chiefly by Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Younger, and Hans Cranach. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 393-[400]. Subjects; Cranach family. Artists – [15th Century – Germany] Art, Renaissance — Germany. Now an increasingly rare book. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 476 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. Notes; Translation of Die Malerfamilie Cranach. Includes reproductions of works chiefly by Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Younger, and Hans Cranach. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 393-[400]. Subjects; Cranach family. Artists – [15th Century – Germany] Art, Renaissance Germany.

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German: Lucas Cranach der Ältere; c. 1472 – 16 October 1553) 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. He was a close friend of Martin Luther, and eleven portraits of that reformer by him survive. Cranach also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued throughout his career to paint nude subjects drawn from mythology and religion.

Cranach had a large workshop and many of his works exist in different versions; his son Lucas Cranach the Younger and others continued to create versions of his father’s works for decades after his death. He has been considered the most successful German artist of his time.