Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1534 - Johann (1498–1537), Duke of Saxony - fine art print

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In 1505 Lucas Cranach the Elder was appointed court painter to the Electors of Saxony at Wittenberg, serving successively Friedrich III, the Wise, Johann I, the Constant, and Johann Friedrich I, the Magnanimous. The sitter in this portrait, Johann, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia, was a member of the ducal or Albertine branch of the family as opposed to the electoral or Ernestine line. The bold design, dramatic color, and capricious but graceful outline of the costume are typical of the style Cranach developed as a portraitist to the court.

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The over 480 year old artpiece called Johann (1498–1537), Duke of Saxony was created by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. The original version of the work of art was painted with the size: 25 5/8 x 17 3/8 in (65,1 x 44,1 cm). Oil on beech was applied by the painter as the medium of the artpiece. It forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art 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, 1908 (license: public domain). Additionally, the artpiece has the following creditline: Rogers Fund, 1908. The alignment is portrait and has a ratio of 2 : 3, which means that the length is 33% shorter than the width. Lucas Cranach the Elder was a painter of German nationality, whose style was mainly Northern Renaissance. The European artist lived for a total of 81 years - born in 1472 in Kronach, Bavaria, Germany and died in 1553.

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