WahooArt.com (Lucas Cranach The Elder)
Arts & Entertainment > Hobbies & Creative Arts > Artwork
WahooArt.com-A-8CABR7-EN
Paintings Reproductions Cupid complaining to Venus., 1525 by Lucas Cranach The Elder (1472-1553, Germany) | WahooArt.com
https://WahooArt.com/Art.nsf/O/8CABR7/$File/Lucas-Cranach-The-Elder-Cupid-complaining-to-Venus..JPG
The Reclining River Nymph at the Fountain (1518, Leipzig) inaugurated a long series of paintings of Venus, Lucretia, the Graces, the judgment of Paris, and other subjects that serve as pretexts for the sensuous female nude, in which Cranach appears as a kind of 16th-century Francois Boucher. The naive elegance of these ladies, whose slender, sinuous bodies defy basic principles of anatomy, were clearly to the taste of the German courts and have an enduring charm. But in conception and style they look back to the International Gothic style of a century before. Thus from a historical viewpoint Cranach's work was a backwater in European art of the 16th century. And though he was the dominant figure in the painting of northeastern Germany during his lifetime, his influence was confined to his immediate circle.
Lucas Cranach The Elder
Lucas Cranach The Elder
Oil On Panel
Oil On Panel