A star is born: Lucas Cranach's early period in Vienna.

Around 1500, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) stepped onto the world stage in Vienna. This volume explores the artist's earliest period of work and presents all the paintings he produced during this time. The expressiveness of these early paintings differs radically from the courtly elegance of the compositions he later produced as a court painter in Wittenberg. These brilliant paintings, drawings, and woodcuts document both the thirty-year-old's close contacts with the humanist circles of Konrad Celtis and Johannes Cuspinian and identify him as a precursor of the so-called Danube School.

Author: Guido Messling
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: 07/20/2022
Pages: 168
Weight: 1.6lbs
Size: 10.16h x 8.03w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9783777439266


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2023

About the Author
Guido Messling is curator for German painting at the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Kerstin Richter is director of the Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am Römerholz" in Winterthur, Switzerland. She is the editor of The Miracle in the Snow: Pieter Bruegel the Elder.