Lucas Cranach

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s paintings join precise outlines and decorative surfaces with a varied range of subjects. His work for the Saxon court includes portraits, while altarpieces and biblical scenes connect his workshop with the religious life of the German Reformation. Adam and Eve and Judith with the Head of Holofernes give narrative subjects a clear focus on figure, gesture, and dress. Cupid Complaining to Venus draws on a classical story through a different arrangement of figures and landscape.