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Cranach

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Cra·nach  (krä), Lucas Known as "the Elder." 1472-1553.
German painter and engraver noted for his many portraits and religious works, some of which depict the theological views of his friend Martin Luther.

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Between a reproduction of a Cranach portrait and an image of a lake behind tree trunks, there is a dirty blank rectangle that seems to be carved into the work, as if something had been peeled away to reveal at its periphery a whole mattress of superimposed fabrics.
In his Elementorum rethorices libri duo of 1531, he ranks Grunewald with Durer and Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553): "In paintings," Melanchthon writes, "these differences can easily be detected.
In between are sumptuous photographs of the work of--to name some of the more familiar--Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach, Matthias Grunewald, Piero della Francesca, Andrea Mantegna, Carlo Crivelli, and Luca Signorelli.
 
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