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	Info
	The Judgment of Paris c. 1513 Oil and tempera on limewood, 43 x 32 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
	The Judgment of Paris (detail) c. 1513 Oil and tempera on limewood Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
	The Judgment of Paris (detail) c. 1513 Oil and tempera on limewood Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
	The Judgment of Paris 1512-14 Limewood, 43 x 32,2 cm Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
	The Judgment of Paris 1527 Oil on panel, 63 x 50 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
	The Judgment of Paris c. 1528 Oil on beech panel, 102 x 71 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	The Judgment of Paris (detail) c. 1528 Oil on beech panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	The Judgment of Paris (detail) c. 1528 Oil on beech panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Reclining River Nymph at the Fountain 1518 Oil on wood, 59 x 92 cm Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
	Reclining Water Nymph 1515-20 Oil and tempera on limewood, 58 x 87 cm Jagdschloss Grunewald, Berlin
	Reclining Nymph 1530-34 Oil on panel, 75 x 120 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Reclining Water Nymph 1533 Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 37 x 24 cm Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
	The Nymph of the Fountain 1534 Panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
	Apollo and Diana c. 1526 Oil and tempera on beechwood, 85 x 57 cm Royal Collection, London
	Apollo and Diana (detail) c. 1526 Oil and tempera on beechwood Royal Collection, London
	Apollo and Diana (detail) c. 1526 Oil and tempera on beechwood Royal Collection, London
	Apollo and Diana c. 1530 Oil and tempera on wood, 45 x 31 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
	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
	A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion (detail) c. 1526 Oil and tempera on wood J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
	The Faun Family 1531 Oil on panel, 44 x 34 cm Private collection
	The Three Graces 1535 Oil on wood, 49 x 34 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
	Hercules and Antaeus c. 1530 Oil and tempera on wood, 27 x 18 cm Private collection