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...first conflating them with soft, pillowy porn, then working them into more conventionally scaled nudes and lately scattering them into satires of life among the well dressed and well fed. His art-history references come from all over--Botticelli, Mantegna, Courbet--but a favorite is the nudes of Lucas Cranach, the Northern Renaissance painter whose high-waisted women with elongated limbs step toward us with strange, awkward footsteps...
...Cranach did it, Van Eyck did it, even Hans Pleydenwurff did it. But nobody drew the birds, bees and flowers better than Albrecht Durer, the German master who died in 1528, leaving a legacy of nature illustrations that have been admired (and copied by forgers) for centuries. Albrecht Durer and the Animal and Plant Studies of the Renaissance by Fritz Koreny (New York Graphic Society; 278 pages; $75), compares such renowned works of botanical and zoological observation as Hare and The Large Piece of Turf with their imitations. The result is a scholarly view of authentication problems in 16th century...
...judgment. In Northern Renaissance Art (Abrams; 560 pages; $45), Art Historian James Snyder examines the intertwining paths of faith and art with erudition and style, aided by nearly 700 illustrations, from anonymous 14th century sculptures to the eloquent engravings and paintings of Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein and Lucas Cranach. Most of the art dwells on religious themes, including some of Europe's most arresting Nativity scenes...
...museums of Europe, East and West, they glow from the wall with an unmistakable vividness: altarpieces, portraits of princes and burghers and ethereal nudes. They are the works of the Cranach family, principally Lucas the Elder and Lucas the Younger, whose genius reflects the richness and turbulence of the 16th century. In Cranach: A Family of Master Painters (Putnam; 476 pages; $50), Art Historian Werner Schade shows how and why their likenesses of Luther and other leading reformers remain the prevailing images today. Much of their work was designed to glorify the new money as well as the new faith...
Rosenberg was the author or co-author of nine books, including a major text on the work of Lucas Cranach, a 16th-century German artist...