b. ca. 1597, Haarlem, d. 1662, Haarlem  Related Paintings of VERSPRONCK, Jan Cornelisz :. | Portrait des Kanzlers Jehan Carondelet | Portrait of a Man | Portrait de jeune garcon | Girl in a Blue Dress wer | Portrait of Willemina van Braeckel er |
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Cranach, Lucas il Vecchio
German tedesco, 1472-1553
Lucas Cranach
Kronach 1472-Weimar 1553 German painter and engraver. The son of a painter, he settled in Wittenberg c.1504 and was court painter successively under three electors of Saxony. There he maintained a flourishing workshop and was twice burgomaster. Cranach was a close friend of Martin Luther, whose doctrine he upheld in numerous paintings and woodcuts, and he has been called the painter of the Reformation. He was a rapid and prolific painter, and the work turned out by his studio is uneven in quality. Naïve and fanciful, often awkward in draftsmanship, it has, nonetheless, freshness and originality and a warm, rich palette. His portraits are particularly successful. Among his best-known works are Repose in Egypt (Gemäldgalerie, Staatliche Mus., Berlin-Dahlem); Judgment of Paris (Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe); Adam and Eve (Courtauld Inst., London); and Crucifixion (Weimar). The latter contains figures of Luther and Cranach. His many famous protraits include those of Elector John Frederick and Self-Portrait (Uffizi). Cranach was also an accomplished miniaturist. He produced a few copperplates and designs for woodcuts. His son and pupil Lucas Cranach, the Younger,
CAJES, Eugenio
Spanish painter (b. 1575, Madrid, d. 1634, Madrid)