Exhibition Lucas Cranach The Elder (Frankfurt) Reviews
Newest Review: ... perched. One picture is a fragment showing only such a landscape, no saint distracting from the details, so one can admire the masterful depiction of the trees and animals grazing in the distance and the town which one only too easily overlooks when the foreground shows a dramatic scene. Cranach's Catholic clientele loved his pictures of Madonnas and saints painted in the traditional manner. The personnel are dressed in the most elegant way, looking at them I feel I'm in a 16th century fashion show, luxurious gowns made of exquisite cloths glide in lush folds to the ground, gloves have slits between the knuckles through which gold rings w... more
Customer Exhibition Lucas Cranach The Elder (Frankfurt) Reviews (1)
by - written on 04/01/08, updated on 04/01/08 (Very useful, 359 readings)
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Meet Lucas Cranach, one of Germany's greatest painters, designers on wood, engravers of copper plates, printer and bookseller, boss of a busy and successful workshop, owner of a pharmacy, dealer in wine and spices, estate agent, councillor and twice mayor of Wittenberg where he lived nearly all his life, a town roughly between Leipzig (Lipsia) and Berlin. The name doesn't ring a bell? If you aren't especially interested in art, you are excused as the man was born 536 years ago. :-) To be precise, he lived from 1472 to 1553. When I read that 113 of his pictures would be exhibited in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt/Main, I knew I had to see them. I'd ... Read the complete review
