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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Portrait of a Young Woman

🖼 Portrait of a Young Woman, 1525-35
Oil on limewood panel
37 × 25 cm

Soft brushwork captures a young woman's pale complexion and jeweled headdress against dark backdrop, rendered with Northern Renaissance precision. Cranach's intimate portraiture exemplifies early German court art, establishing the refined aesthetic that defined elite Renaissance identity.

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E. H. Gombrich
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