Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1510 - The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara - fine art print

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According to legend, Saint Barbara was executed by her heathen father, Dioscorus, when she refused to recant her Christian faith. Luxuriously dressed, she seems here to calmly accept her fate as she kneels before Dioscorus, who raises his sword to behead her. The four sinister-looking witnesses may be the Roman authorities who had tortured her in an attempt to persuade her to sacrifice to pagan gods, and who later sentenced her to death. The coat of arms indicates that Cranach painted this panel for a member of the Rem family, who were wealthy merchants in Augsburg.

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This classic art piece of art was made by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1510. The 510 year-old version of the painting measures the size: Overall 60 3/8 x 54 1/4 in (153,4 x 137,8 cm); painted surface 59 3/8 x 53 1/8 in (150,8 x 134,9 cm). Oil on linden was used by the European painter as the medium of the piece of art. What is more, this artpiece belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1957 (license: public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Rogers Fund, 1957. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Lucas Cranach the Elder was an artist, whose style was mainly Northern Renaissance. The German painter was born in 1472 in Kronach, Bavaria, Germany and deceased at the age of 81 in the year 1553.

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