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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Generalised Portrait of a Woman

🖼 Generalised Portrait of a Woman, c. 1525
Oil and tempera on red beechwood
38 × 27 cm
London, United Kingdom

Soft brushwork renders a woman's delicate features against dark background, her jeweled headdress and elaborate costume suggesting wealth and status. Cranach's idealized beauty exemplifies Renaissance portraiture's emphasis on grace and refinement, establishing conventions for German aristocratic depiction.

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