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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Altarpiece (first opening)

🖼 Altarpiece (first opening), 1539
Wood
Schneeberg, Germany

Vivid religious narratives unfold across gilded panels in tempera and oil, their jewel-toned figures rendered with Northern precision. Cranach's altarpiece exemplifies German Reformation art, combining medieval devotional intensity with Renaissance humanism to serve Protestant worship in this Saxon church.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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