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4 unusual facts about Lucas Cranach the Younger


Buchbrunn

1480, a well worked baptismal font furnished with the benefactor's coat of arms and a painting influenced by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Younger which shows a last supper administered by Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon.

Hinduism in Martinique

The design derives originally from Lucas Cranach's Diana Reclining and Édouard Manet's Olympia but the inspiration is Martinique and the symbolism is largely Hindu, the central figure being the Hindu goddess Mariamman.

Lucas Cranach the Younger

This union produced three daughters and two sons, including Augustin Cranach.

He was the youngest son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Barbara Brengebier, and began his career as an apprentice in his father's workshop alongside his brother Hans.


St. Peter und Paul, Weimar

The remarkable triptych image of the city was begun by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1552/53, shortly before his death, and completed in 1555 by his son Lucas Cranach the Younger.


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