Artist: Lucas Cranach - Title: The Virgin and Child Under an Apple Tree - Medium: Fine Art Reproduction Giclee on Canvas - Image Size: Approximately 32 inches x 21.5 inches - Unframed on Unstretched Canvas - Biography: Lucas Cranach was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm. He was a close friend of Martin Luther. Cranach also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued throughout his career to paint nude subjects drawn from mythology and religion.

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