CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
(b. 1472, Kronach, d. 1553, Weimar)

Lucretia

1533
Red beechwood panel, 37 x 24 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Cranach painted many slant-eyed, narrow-waisted, high-breasted nudes with highly charged eroticism. These nudes - depicted to order or almost mass-produced - came in life-size as this Venus and Cupid, or practically pocket-size.