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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: The Virgin of the Grapes

🖼 The Virgin of the Grapes, 1520-25
Oil and tempera on beechwood
60 × 42 cm
Munich, Germany

Soft brushwork renders Mary and Christ Child amid lush grapevines, their gentle intimacy framed by Northern Renaissance detail. Cranach's composition merges sacred devotion with symbolic fertility, establishing the influential German aesthetic that defined his era's religious imagery.

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