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Something wrong?Court painter to the Saxon princes and closest visual chronicler of the Protestant Reformation - eleven surviving portraits of Martin Luther alone. Cranach painted both sides of the split: Catholic altarpieces early, Lutheran reinventions later, and pagan nudes straight through.
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Born around 1472, Cranach spent most of his career as court painter to the Electors of Saxony, a position that gave him both security and proximity to power. He became a close friend of Martin Luther and threw himself into the Protestant cause, painting its leaders while searching for new visual language to express Lutheran concerns - a break from the Catholic tradition he'd worked in earlier. His workshop was large and prolific; works exist in multiple versions, many created by his son Lucas Cranach the Younger and others who kept replicating the elder's compositions for decades after his death on 16 October 1553. He has been considered the most successful German artist of his time.
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