I decided to make a choker necklace to go with my Cranach dress. I couldn't get exactly like those pictured with commercially purchased bits, but I did my best to get close. Round thingies with four points in holding a gem were common, I felt the quatrefoil's looked close, they were pricey, the brass rectangles were cheaper and finally some beading wire and freshwater pearls! This shouldn't take long, I said...

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c. 1550

Gowns of early 16th Century German-Saxon gowns made popular by the paintings of Lucas Cranach the Elder.

In Kronach, der Cranach-Stadt, soll in Kürze ein wiederentdecktes Gemälde von Lucas Cranach dem Älteren enthüllt werden. Wenige Tage zuvor stürzt die Studentin Lara in einem Bamberger Hochhaus durch einen Müllschacht, den es längst nicht mehr geben dürfte.

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I'm still trying to work out how to construct a Cranach gown 'properly'. I've found some higher resolution images of some of the Cranach wom...

A high necked gown in velvet and brocade. This style was worn by noble women in eastern Germany from 1520s-1540s. It’s often called a ‘Cranach Gown’ because Lucas Cranach the Younger painted many noble women and Biblical allegories of women wearing this style. This Cranach style was the very first court gown I made, and […]

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Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), The Holy Kinship with a Self-Portrait, 1510-12, detail 5, self-portrait of the painter. Die heilige Sippe mit Selbstporträt. Canon EOS 7D Visit also album Hieronymus Bosch, Last Judgment Triptych der Akademie on www.flickr.com/photos/snarfel/sets/72157628388369437

Are they or aren't they hairnets? When you go through paintings by Lucas Cranach the elder, the details are exquisite. I visited one exhibition as a resident hairnetter and had long discussions about the headgear of these ladies. Some of them are obviously embroidered caps made of cloth. You can distinct the fabric clearly by…

A pair. Panel 19 x 14 cm (each).

Jusqu’au 23 mai le Musée du Luxembourg à Paris exhibe Cranach et son temps, basée sur l’œuvre du grand peintre et graveur allemand du 15ème siècle Lucas Muller, plus connu comme Lucas Cranach l’ancien. L’exposition cherche à démontrer l’influence ...

There are fifteen paintings in the collection associated with the name Lucas Cranach (I and II); one was acquired in the 17th Century, one in the 18th Century and the remainder in the 19th Century. Prince Albert particularly admired Cranach, acquiring ten works, partly as an example of early German art and partly as the court painter to his ancestors.In this pedestrian pastiche of Cranachs style, Salome, in German costume, stands behind a parapet on which rests the charger with the head of Saint John the...