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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Portrait of a Jurist

🖼 Portrait of a Jurist, 1503
Oil and tempera on wood
54 × 39 cm
Nuremberg, Germany

Rendered in sharp detail, a stern jurist gazes outward, dressed in formal black robes against a gold backdrop. Cranach's 1503 portrait exemplifies German Renaissance precision and establishes the austere professional portrait type that dominated Northern Europe for centuries.

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E. H. Gombrich
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