The legal battle for Lucas Cranach the Elder’s paintings Adam and Eve (both circa 1530), which has raged for over a decade, looks poised to continue in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. A late July ...

Now owned by London’s National Gallery, “Cupid complaining to Venus” once hung in the Führer’s private living room and was ...

A painting of Friedrich III, who famously protected Martin Luther, has been returned to the State Art Collections of Dresden ...

The 16th-century painting is now owned by the National Gallery, London.

After 2½ years of rigorous, sometimes hair-raising effort, the conservation studio at the J. Paul Getty Museum has completed work on one of the key treasures of European art in Los Angeles. Lucas ...

After a three-year-long restoration project, Lucas the Elder’s iconic 16th-century panels are back on view at the Los Angeles museum. Cranach was a court painter for the Electors of Saxony in ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder, “Portrait of Electress and Her Son” (1510-40), oil on panel (Royal Collection Trust, © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019, all images ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) is acknowledged as one of the greats of the German Renaissance. His combination of religious piety and fleshly eroticism went on to inspire artists across the globe ...

He was more than just the major painter of the Reformation. He was also a good entrepreneur who knew how to sell his art. Works by Lucas Cranach, the Elder, can now be admired in a major exhibition in ...

When Old Greenwich resident Maryan Ainsworth, curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was given her turn to take charge of the museum's "changing focus" Gallery 264, she chose ...