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.
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.
Interdisciplinary and interinstitutional
The Cranach Digital Archive shows that cooperation can broaden the scope for the assessment and interpretation of art works.
Research
In collaboration with partner institutions, the Cranach Digital Archive team examined 260 drawings, 1,140 paintings and 2,200 prints from 177 collections, using art-historical and art-technological research methods.The cda in figures
2,570 paintings and illuminations
330 drawings and painted studies
640 printed works with
3,300 impressions
1,340 archival documents
38.400 high resolution images
10.500 text pages in German and English
1.110 additional pdf-documents
4.800 bibliographical references
1.900 infrared reflectograms
800 x-radiographs
and many more
Our Partners
An initiative by the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf and Cologne University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with and more than 449 museums, libraries, research institutions, church communities and private collections in 35 countries.
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