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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Plates bright and vivid. Nice book in great condition. Ex national gallery. Very slight tan to page edges ortherwise excellent. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Lucas Cranach the Elder’s small picture of Venus in the Stadel Museum Frankfurt has captivated many viewers (fig.r cat. 114). While art historians have called this painting the most exquisite of Cranach’s little pictures of Venus’ because of its artistic quality. particularly the graceful pose and the fine execution and ranked it first among the many variants of its type many artists have been directly inspired by it. From Ernst Ludwig Kirchner via Orto M?ller to Alberto Giacometti there is a whole range of modern artists who studied copied and paraphrased Cranach’s painting. Comparing the modern adaptations with Cranach’s original reveals an essential difference however demonstrating all the more clearly the specific quality of Cranach’s pictorial invention and granting an insight into his artistic view of himself. (OS)