Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1540 - Hunting near Hartenfels Castle - fine art print

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The work of art was painted by the male German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder. The more than 480 years old original has the size: Framed: 133 x 185,5 x 7,3 cm (52 3/8 x 73 1/16 x 2 7/8 in); Unframed: 116,8 x 170,2 cm (46 x 67 in). Oil, originally on wood, transferred to masonite was used by the European artist as the medium of the painting. It was inscribed with the following information: "signed lower right on boat with a winged serpent, and dated: 1540 [inventory number, lower right: 1577]". Nowadays, this artpiece is in the the The Cleveland Museum of Art's digital collection. This public domain masterpiece is being provided with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. : John L. Severance Fund. What is more, the alignment is landscape and has an image ratio of 3 : 2, meaning that the length is 50% longer than the width. The painter Lucas Cranach the Elder was an artist from Germany, whose style can be attributed mainly to Northern Renaissance. The Northern Renaissance painter was born in 1472 in Kronach, Bavaria, Germany and died at the age of 81 in 1553 in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany.

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The Protestant rulers of Saxony commissioned this animated hunt scene, set near their residence seen in the background, Hartenfels Castle (in eastern Germany). John Frederick the Magnanimous, in the bottom left corner, wears dark green hunting attire; he spans his crossbow and waits for his courtiers and dogs to chase a stag across the river. His wife, the Electress Sibylle, stands at right, poised to take the first ceremonial shot. The prince electors of Saxony were passionate practitioners of hunting with dogs—elaborate, highly rehearsed occasions, coordinated by the use of signals from hunting horns. Cranach dated this work and his signature is the winged snake at lower right. 1577 in the right corner is an inventory number.

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