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Calculating Eye. Lucas Cranach's 16th Century view of the Judgment of Paris was classical in theme only. His illustration of the first beauty contest, in which Paris, after some difficulty, decided in favor of Venus, bristled with Gothic touches. Cranach had presented fast-stepping Mercury with an iron-grey beard, a studious look and a crystal ball instead of a golden apple. He had dressed Paris in the ponderous armor and plumed hat of a German prince, gave him an insufferably arrogant and calculating...
...bombed-out German museums (notably Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich), they saw the work of such Flemish masters as Van Eyck, Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe he had found the place where stooped cripples and trembling yellow hags could bathe and become pink-skinned virgins once again...
Favorite & Rival. Lucas Cranach, an early 16th-Century German master, was a Göring favorite, and he had some beauties-about 50 in all. He had a lovely Venus by Cranach, a Madonna with Child and John the Baptist, and a haunting portrait of Prince Moritz of Saxony as a boy. "It is a curious thing," Hofer added, "but that portrait has great similarity to little Edda, Göring's daughter...
...life. Painted about 1516 for a convent at Isenheim, Alsace, the intense, now-gruesome, now-radiant Altar Screen is easily the most important set of medieval paintings any German produced. Most experts agree that the work ranks above the best of Holbein the Younger, Dürer and Cranach...
There is an interesting exhibit of sixteenth century German wood-cuts in the Print Room of Fogg Museum. Works by Durer and Cranach form the main body of the small collection. Both of these men lived in a country which had not yet undergone the comparatively complete liberation from the medieval tradition which the southern countries of Europe had succeeded in doing. Whereas the sixteenth century Italian artists were busily engaged in developing what can be called a Renaissance style, German artists of the same period were still in the process of reconciling the element of Gothicism with...