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| two color linoleum print |
Lucas Cranach the elder (1472-1553) made his reputation by painting the nobility and court personalities into biblical or mythological stories. By this way he was granting the German princes of 1720 a lineage back to the beginning of the calendar. For a non-literate society, Cranach's paintings and prints really read as the truth.
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| first run |
He made his fortune painting barely veiled nude women for his male patrons.
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| Just resting on a decapitated head |
And he garnered respect from the women by depicting them as victorious, saintly and beautiful.
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