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Are you an art enthusiast looking to learn more about the captivating painting, Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder? Look no further! This master...

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To the rigorous, perfectly Renaissance Dürer, troubled by the question of the proportions of the human body, Cranach, in his nudes, responds by freeing himself from every rule and from any observation of anatomical accuracy. His figures are elongated out of all proportion, seem boneless and are show...

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Introduction to the Painting

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Cupid complains to Venus of being stung by bees when stealing a honeycomb. This is to be taken as a moral commentary; as the inscription observes: /

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This Virgin, whose cheek touches that of the Christ Child, is based on the Byzantine Elousa type, or Virgin of Tenderness. The best-known example of the type is the Italo-Byzantine Madonna of Cambrai, bequeathed to the Cambrai Cathedral in 1426 as an original work by St Luke, on which many early Net...

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The Jagdschloss Grunewald is a relatively modest hunting lodge in Berlin begun by the Kurfurst Joachim II of Brandenburg in the early sixteenth century. It is located in the woods, close to the city's suburbs. Many Dutch, Flemish, and German painting - mostly dating between the sixteenth and early e...

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Samson demonstrated his superhuman strength by slaying a lion with his bare hands. He is depicted with foot in its back, grasping its jaws in his hands and forcing them apart. Combat with a single adversary was a subject that naturally tended to acquire a symbolic meaning. This instance was interpre...

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The composition of this monumental panel with the Last Judgement is divided horizontally into two sections. At top centre Christ sits on a rainbow with his feet resting on the orb of the world, surrounded by angels. The bottom half shows the resurrected blessed on the left, and the damned being sent...

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