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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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Turner, Isaac Newton, and Cranach the Elder, is only the first of several collaborations he has planned with Forsythe to investigate the phenomenology of light.
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.
Invented just two years earlier and first seen in the color prints of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Burgkmair, [194] the use of a second woodblock to add color t o the traditional black and white print made it possible to create a dramatic night scene that heightened the emotional charge of the print.
 
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