Allegorical scenes
by Lucas CRANACH the Elder

The Cranach workshop produced several panels of secular pictures involving large numbers of nude figures, for which there was clearly a great demand in the 1530s. The figures are not the result of life studies but correspond to Cranach's ideal nude figures.

Preview Picture Data File Info Comment
The Fountain of Youth
1546
Lime panel, 122,5 x 186,5 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

1117*720
True Color
194 Kb



The Fountain of Youth (detail)
1546
Lime panel
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

1000*848
True Color
186 Kb



The Fountain of Youth (detail)
1546
Lime panel
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

871*948
True Color
161 Kb



The Fountain of Youth (detail)
1546
Lime panel
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

808*1011
True Color
154 Kb



The Fountain of Youth (detail)
1546
Lime panel
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

944*820
True Color
130 Kb



The Fountain of Youth (detail)
1546
Lime panel
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

1030*779
True Color
157 Kb



The Fountain of Youth (detail)
1546
Lime panel
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

1087*740
True Color
180 Kb



The Fountain of Youth (detail)
1546
Lime panel
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

678*699
True Color
77 Kb



The Golden Age
c. 1530
Oil and tempera on wood, transferred to new panel, 74 x 106 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

1307*900
True Color
192 Kb



The Golden Age (detail)
c. 1530
Oil and tempera on wood, transferred to new panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

1076*1300
True Color
224 Kb



The Golden Age (detail)
c. 1530
Oil and tempera on wood, transferred to new panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

1000*1428
True Color
209 Kb



The Silver Age
c. 1530
Oil and tempera on oak, 50 x 36 cm
National Gallery, London

900*1263
True Color
205 Kb



Allegory of Melancholy
1532
Oil and tempera on wood, 77 x 56 cm
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar

1116*1500
True Color
201 Kb



Allegory of Melancholy (detail)
1532
Oil and tempera on wood
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar

1000*1331
True Color
183 Kb



Allegory of Melancholy
1528
Oil and tempera on wood, 113 x 72 cm
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

1000*1565
True Color
196 Kb



Melancholy
1532
Oil on panel, 51 x 97 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

1500*790
True Color
123 Kb




Summary of works by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Paintings
altar retables | representations of the Virgin | St Jerome
religious themes until 1515 | from 1516
biblical scenes | biblical nudes
mythological nudes | Venus and Lucretia | allegorical scenes
portraits until 1515 | 1516-1526 | from 1527
miscellaneous paintings
Graphics
drawings | woodcuts