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 cooperation with our partner museums, the Cranach Digital Archive team has already examined 1139 paintings in 152 collections and churches using various methods, such as infrared reflectography and X-ray fluorescence analysis. Our current research project focuses on Cranach's prints and drawings.2,570 paintings
25,050 high resolution images
1,110 pdf-documents
9,400 text pages in German and English
1,340 archival documents
4,365 bibliographical references
1,660 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 360 museums, research institutions, church communities and private collections in 35 countries.
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