Lucas Cranach the Elder (German: Lucas Cranach der Ältere [ˈluːkas ˈkʁaːnax deːɐ̯ ˈʔɛltəʁə]; c. 1472 – 16 October 1553) 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 ...

Lucas Cranach the Younger was born in Wittenberg, Germany on October 4, 1515, the second son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Barbara Brengebier. He began his career as a painter as an apprentice in his father's workshop, training alongside his older brother, Hans. Following the sudden death of Hans in 1537, Cranach the Younger would assume ...

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (/ ˈ r uː b ən z /; Dutch: [ˈrybə(n)s]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.

European iconography is fairly consistent, as the Cranach painting and mirror-case Fons Juventutis (The Fountain of Youth) from 200 years earlier demonstrate: old people, often carried, enter at left, strip, and enter a pool that is as large as space allows.The people in the pool are youthful and naked, and after a while they leave it, and are shown fashionably dressed …

The Massacre of the Innocents is the incident described in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.The Catholic Church regards them as the first Christian martyrs, and their feast – Holy Innocents' Day (or the Feast …

Lucas Maler, dit Lucas Cranach l’Ancien, né le 4 octobre 1472 à Kronach (principauté de Bamberg) et mort le 16 octobre 1553 à Weimar (duché de Saxe), est un peintre et graveur de la Renaissance allemande. Son patronyme dérive de celui de sa ville natale.

Martin Luther was born to Hans Luder (or Ludher, later Luther) and his wife Margarethe (née Lindemann) on 10 November 1483 in Eisleben, County of Mansfeld, in the Holy Roman Empire.Luther was baptized the next morning on the feast day of St. Martin of Tours.In 1484, his family moved to Mansfeld, where his father was a leaseholder of copper mines and smelters …

A silver age is a particular period within a history coming after a historical golden age, similarly prestigious and eventful but less so than the prior Golden Age.The name derives from the fact that the metal silver is valuable but less so than gold in many cultures.. Greek myth. The original silver age (Αργυρόν Γένος) was the second of the five "Ages of Man" described by the ...

Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer (July 28, 1855 – January 6, 1929) was an art collector, feminist, and philanthropist.In addition to being a patron of impressionist art, she was one of the more prominent contributors to the suffrage movement in the United States. The impressionist painter Edgar Degas and feminist Alice Paul were among the renowned recipients of the …

Nebuchadnezzar is a colour monotype print with additions in ink and watercolour portraying the Old Testament Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II by the English poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake.Taken from the Book of Daniel, the legend of Nebuchadnezzar tells of a ruler who through hubris lost his mind and was reduced to animalistic madness and eating "grass as oxen".