World culture: An exhibition dedicated to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his family opened in the State Hermitage Museum

An exhibition dedicated to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his family – “The Cranach Family: between Renaissance and Mannerism” – opened in the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg) June 7, 2016.

The exhibition was held earlier this year at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow) and enjoyed great popularity. With some alterations it has been transferred to the State Hermitage. On display are 80 paintings and graphic works produced by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger, their workshop and artists of their school, which demonstrate a wide range of the subjects and styles characteristic of the artists. The works on display come from the Pushkin Museum, Hermitage, museums of Nizhny Novgorod, Berlin and Madrid as well as from private collections. The exhibition showcases portraits of the Lutheran members of the House of Wettin by Master IS and two portraits of Christoph Leutloff which show what the Saxon nobility looked like in the time of the Cranachs.