Together with the secular commissions for decorating Electoral palaces and castles and providing the churches of Saxony with altarpieces, Cranach pursued other areas. There was an increase in his mythological and allegorical scenes drawn from pagan Antiquity which were distributed in print form, and panel paintings which initially were all individual pieces. These include such grandiose works as the life-sized Venus and Cupid of 1509.

One of Cranach's most beguiling compositions is the so-called Nymph of the Fountain. This reclining figure derives from classical marbles. After the earliest dated version of 1518, he painted several variants.

Later he depicted several variants of the Judgment of Paris, Apollo and Diana, Venus and Cupid. Most of these mythological works paraphrase earlier prints by other artists (e.g. Dürer and Barbari).

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	The Judgment of Paris c. 1513 Oil and tempera on limewood, 43 x 32 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth	1039*1400 True Color 189 Kb
	The Judgment of Paris (detail) c. 1513 Oil and tempera on limewood Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth	1000*1339 True Color 204 Kb
	The Judgment of Paris (detail) c. 1513 Oil and tempera on limewood Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth	1000*1313 True Color 173 Kb
	The Judgment of Paris 1512-14 Limewood, 43 x 32,2 cm Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne	730*990 True Color 167 Kb
	The Judgment of Paris 1527 Oil on panel, 63 x 50 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen	1127*1500 True Color 231 Kb
	The Judgment of Paris c. 1528 Oil on beech panel, 102 x 71 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	989*1400 True Color 240 Kb
	The Judgment of Paris (detail) c. 1528 Oil on beech panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	856*1100 True Color 252 Kb
	The Judgment of Paris (detail) c. 1528 Oil on beech panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	1200*756 True Color 234 Kb
	Reclining River Nymph at the Fountain 1518 Oil on wood, 59 x 92 cm Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig	1180*770 True Color 172 Kb
	Reclining Water Nymph 1515-20 Oil and tempera on limewood, 58 x 87 cm Jagdschloss Grunewald, Berlin	1524*1000 True Color 203 Kb
	Reclining Nymph 1530-34 Oil on panel, 75 x 120 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid	1200*763 True Color 178 Kb
	Reclining Water Nymph 1533 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 37 x 24 cm Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt	1000*1500 True Color 213 Kb
	The Nymph of the Fountain 1534 Panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	1148*718 True Color 174 Kb
	Apollo and Diana c. 1526 Oil and tempera on beechwood, 85 x 57 cm Royal Collection, London	1000*1465 True Color 216 Kb
	Apollo and Diana (detail) c. 1526 Oil and tempera on beechwood Royal Collection, London	1000*1290 True Color 212 Kb
	Apollo and Diana (detail) c. 1526 Oil and tempera on beechwood Royal Collection, London	970*1023 True Color 173 Kb
	Apollo and Diana c. 1530 Oil and tempera on wood, 45 x 31 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels	1000*1431 True Color 172 Kb
	A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion c. 1526 Oil and tempera on wood, 83 x 56 cm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles	1014*1500 True Color 174 Kb
	A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion (detail) c. 1526 Oil and tempera on wood J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles	1001*1317 True Color 170 Kb
	The Faun Family 1531 Oil on panel, 44 x 34 cm Private collection	677*894 True Color 171 Kb
	The Three Graces 1535 Oil on wood, 49 x 34 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City	1155*1600 True Color 139 Kb
	Hercules and Antaeus c. 1530 Oil and tempera on wood, 27 x 18 cm Private collection	678*1000 True Color 83 Kb