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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Portrait of a Bearded Man

🖼 Portrait of a Bearded Man, 1527
Oil and tempera on red beechwood
28 × 35 cm
Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Rich oils capture a bearded gentleman in three-quarter view, his penetrating gaze rendered with Cranach's characteristic linear precision and warm palette. This portrait exemplifies Northern Renaissance individualism and German court painting's psychological depth during the Reformation era.

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