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The Beheading of St. John the Baptist Wall Art
ART BY: Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist Wall Art
ART BY: Lucas Cranach the Elder
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The Beheading of St. John the Baptist is a woodcut; second state of two (hollstein) by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), dated 1553. The artist is catalogued as German. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 2554 × 3625 px (3.9 MB). It is filed under Prints and Renaissance, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 382 works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, a German artist.
Lucas Cranach the Elder 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 leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Lucas Cranach the Elder →
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