Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop

Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop stands among the defining German Renaissance painters and printmakers, whose landscapes, portraits and sacred subjects shaped the visual culture of the Reformation era. The four works gathered here span oil painting on beech and linden panels as well as a woodcut, several carrying letterpress-printed paper labels. Portraits of the Saxon electors Friedrich III and Johann I sit alongside religious imagery such as Saint Maurice and a title-border illustrating the story of Salome and St. John the Baptist. The sheets date from 1520 to 1533, with impressions up to that year reflecting later printings.

4 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Title-Border with the Story of Salome and St. John the Baptist

· Woodcut

Johann I (1468–1532), the Constant, Elector of Saxony (1532–33, Met-Objekt 2434)

1532–33 · Oil on beech, with letterpress-printed paper labels

Friedrich III (1463–1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony

1533 · Oil on beech, with letterpress-printed paper labels

Saint Maurice

ca. 1520–25 · Oil on linden