Cranach

Name: Cranach
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SKU: 9783777439266
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The Early Years in Vienna

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Exploring the formative years of Lucas Cranach the Elder, this book focuses on his earliest works created around 1500 in Vienna. It highlights the expressive and vibrant style distinct from his later courtly compositions as the Elector of Saxony's court painter in Wittenberg. Readers gain insight into his connections with Renaissance humanists and his role as a precursor to the Danube School through paintings, drawings, and woodcuts from this period.
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of Renaissance art, art historians, and readers interested in the cultural history of early 16th-century Europe.

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Around 1500, Lucas Cranach the Elder stepped onto the world stage in Vienna. This publication explores the artist's earliest period of work and presents all the paintings he produced during this time. Their expressiveness is radically different from the courtly-elegant compositions he subsequently produced as a court painter in Wittenberg.

Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) produced his earliest works around 1500 in Vienna, shortly before moving to Wittenberg to become court painter to the Elector of Saxony. These brilliant paintings, drawings, and woodcuts document both the thirty-year-old's close contacts with the humanist circles of Konrad Celtis and Johannes Cuspinian, and identify him as a precursor of the so-called Danube School.

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Choice praises this focused exhibition catalogue for clarifying Cranach's early career and influences, recommending it especially for those interested in northern Renaissance art.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777439266

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 April 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: 70 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Guido Messling
Edited by Kerstin Richter
Edited by Guido Messling

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 205.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 820g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Guido Messling is Curator for German painting at the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.

Kerstin Richter is Director of the Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz' in Winterthur.