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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Altar wing (left, inner side)

🖼 Altar wing (left, inner side), c. 1537
Wood
Cathedral
Valencia, Italy

Golden light illuminates layered religious scenes rendered in Cranach's precise Northern style, with jewel-toned robes and intricate architectural detail. This hinged altar wing exemplifies Protestant Reformation art, combining devotional intensity with humanist refinement in sixteenth-century German practice.

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E. H. Gombrich
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