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Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder ( , c. 1472 – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm. He was a close friend of Martin Luther. Cranach also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find
Portrait of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Portrait of Lucas Cranach the Elder is a 1550 oil on panel portrait of Lucas Cranach the Elder. It is inscribed "Aetatis Suae LXXVII". It entered the Uffizi as a self-portrait, but was later re-attributed to painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger. It is still in the Uffizi, whilst a copy of it with some variants is now in the Staatkirche in Weimar.