Lucas Cranach
Lucas Cranach the Elder embodies the ideals of Renaissance man active not only as a painter and printmaker, but also as an entrepreneur and politician.
Interdisciplinary and interinstitutional
The Cranach Digital Archive shows that cooperation can broaden the scope for the assessment and interpretation of art works.
News
21 December 2020With the addition of a further 80 works and a total of 2,230 paintings now accessible on the cda website the research platform has established the foundation for a digital and freely accessible catalogue raisonné.
Critical Catalogue of Luther portraits (1519 - 1530)
A high-profile research project, a cooperation between the Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the TH Cologne is examining the authenticity of the Luther portraits.2,230 paintings
18,500 high resolution images
1,030 pdf-documents
8,000 text pages in German and English
1,264 archival documents
3,850 bibliographical references
1,520 infrared reflectograms
770 x-radiographs
and many more
Our Partners
An initiative by the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf and Cologne University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with more than 348 museums, research institutions, church communities and private collections in 35 countries. The project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation.
Research
In cooperation with our partners the cda-team has examined 1109 paintings in 145 collections and churches employing new methods such as digital infrared reflectography