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Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Nude Apollo with bow and laurel branch stands beside nude Diana seated on a stag, with a river landscape behind them.

Apollo and Diana

1530

Painting of an elderly man in a black cap leaning toward a young woman in a red striped dress against a dark background.

An Old Man with a Girl / An Ill-matched Couple

1530

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ between two thieves, mourning women at left and mounted soldiers at right.

Crucifixion

1500

Painting of three nude women with gold necklaces, the central one wearing a red feathered hat, against a black background.

The Three Graces

1531

Lucas Cranach the Elder's painting of St. Sebastian bound to a tree and pierced by arrows, against a dark background.

St. Sebastian

1543

Virgin Mary with long hair holds the infant Christ, who reaches for an apple, before a landscape with a castle and river.

The Virgin and Child

1516

Painting of nude Eve holding an apple beside a serpent in a tree, with a deer resting at her side.

Eve

1533-37

Night scene of soldiers with pikes arresting Christ, a man in orange embracing him, with a sword-bearing apostle at left.

Christ's Arrest

1538

Adam and Eve nude in a forest with a serpent in an apple tree, a lion and a stag beside them.

Adam and Eve in Paradise (Fall of Man)

1531

Nude Eve holding an apple beside a serpent on a tree, with a sprig of leaves, against a dark background.

Eve

1528

Painting of the Madonna in blue and red holding a child with grapes, set in a landscape with trees and a castle on a cliff.

Virgin and Child (Called the Madonna under the Firs)

1510

Crucifixion of Christ between two thieves, with an armored rider on a white horse below, against a dark stormy sky.

The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion

1536

Nude woman with long red hair holding a dagger to her chest, wearing a red jeweled necklace, against a black background.

The Suicide of Lucretia

1530

Painting of the Virgin and Child with four female saints, cherubs above a dark hill, and a castle landscape behind.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with Saints Dorothy, Margaret and Barbara

1516

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ, with two angels holding a green cloth and a landscape behind.

Virgin and Child

1515

Painting of nude Adam and Eve beside a tree with a serpent, Eve holding an apple, against a dark background.

Adam and Eve

1510

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in black robe holding a scroll against a pale blue background.

Philipp Melanchthon, Leading Figure of the Reformation

1540

Virgin and Child with young Saint John offering grapes, with angels holding red drapery against a stone wall.

The Virgin and the Child, Saint John and Angels

1536

Oil portrait of an older man in a black cap and fur-trimmed dark robe against a blue background.

Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam

1530

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ between two thieves, surrounded by armored soldiers, mourning women and a dark sky.

The Crucifixion

1538

Painting of a woman in red cradling a sleeping man under an apple tree as armed men watch from the foliage behind.

Samson and Delilah

ca. 1528-30

Half-length portrait of a man in a black cap and dark robe against a turquoise background.

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

probably 1532

Nude Venus in red hat stands by a tree as winged Cupid is stung by bees, with a Latin inscription and landscape behind.

Venus with Cupid the Honey Thief

Nude Venus in a plumed headdress reaches toward an apple tree as a winged Cupid holds a pinecone beside her.

Cupid Complaining to Venus

1526

Painting of a kneeling cardinal in red robes before a crucified Christ under a dark stormy sky, with a birch tree at left.

Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg in front of the Crucified Christ

1520

Painting of the crucifixion with Christ flanked by two thieves, Mary and John grieving below, under a stormy sky.

Christ on the cross with Mary and John

1503

Portrait of a young blond boy in a floral wreath, brown cloak and red patterned sleeves, against a dark background.

A Prince of Saxony

c. 1517

Portrait of a young girl with long golden hair, gold chain necklace, red embroidered dress and striped sleeves, against a bla

A Princess of Saxony

c. 1517

Painting of the Madonna holding grapes while the nude infant Christ eats one, with an apple and wine glass on a table.

Madonna and Child

probably c. 1535 or after

Half-length portrait of a man in a black beret and dark red cloak against a green background, by Cranach the Elder.

Portrait of a Man

1522

Portrait of a Woman

1522

Painting of the crucifixion with Christ center, two thieves on crosses, and a mounted soldier in armor on a white horse below

The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion

1536