Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1540 - Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg - fine art print

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As court painter to the electors of Saxony, Lucas Cranach the Elder developed a simplified portrait style that catered to his patrons’ concern with dynastic continuity and princely status. His portraits of princes present a legible, if not always flattering, rendering of his sitter’s features and richly patterned costumes. The Saxon princess depicted her married in to the Brandenburg branch of the Hohenzollern family, and her descendants became kings of Prussia and then emperors of Germany. A companion portrait of her husband is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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This artwork was created by the northern renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1540. The original was made with the size - 23 9/16 × 16 3/8 in (59,8 × 41,6 cm) Painted surface: 23 9/16 × 16 in (59,8 × 40,6 cm). Oil on panel was applied by the artist as the medium of the work of art. What is more, this work of art is in the the Art Institute Chicago's digital collection. With courtesy of Art Institute Chicago (public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Kate S. Buckingham. On top of that, alignment is in portrait format and has a ratio of 1 : 1.4, meaning that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Lucas Cranach the Elder was a painter of German nationality, whose art style was mainly Northern Renaissance. The German artist was born in the year 1472 in Kronach, Bavaria, Germany and deceased at the age of 81 in the year 1553 in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany.

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