Lucas Cranach the Elder

Cranach paints slender, stylized nudes and sharp Reformation portraits with linear elegance and a courtly, slightly mannered chill. Look for elongated pale bodies, dark grounds, and decorative precision.

Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) was a painter from Germany, associated with Northern Renaissance.

The 15th–16th-century flowering of the Low Countries and Germany — oil glazes, microscopic detail, and sharp, worldly realism. Northern Renaissance →

More Northern Renaissance painters: Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch.