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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Penitent St Jerome 1502 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Paradise 1530 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Adam ca. 1510-20 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Eve ca. 1510-20 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Fall of Man ca. 1537-50 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
"Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) was one of the most versatile artists of the Northern Renaissance. He was a staunch partisan of the Reformation and a close friend of Martin Luther, for whom he produced didactic religious paintings. He also produced his own erotic ideal of the female nude – a type that has had enduring appeal to the present day. Little is known of Cranach's early years, except that he was much influenced by the humanist learning prevalent in Vienna, where he spent time in his youth. Cranach was a prolific artist, leaving behind a great many paintings, engravings, and woodcuts – but in true humanist style he not only served as painter and architectural adviser to the ducal court of Wittenberg but was burgomaster of the town and also owned a bookshop and a pharmacy."
– from The Renaissance in the North (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987)
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Portrait of Princesses Sibylla, Emilia and Sidonia of Saxony ca. 1535 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Portrait of Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ca. 1520 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Deer Hunt of Elector Frederick of Saxony 1529 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1530 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1537-50 oil on panel (trimmed on sides and lower edge) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Lot and his Daughters 1528 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder Conversion of Saul ca. 1520 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Younger Portrait of a Man 1564 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucas Cranach the Younger Portrait of a Woman 1564 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
"Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586) – Younger son of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he trained and worked in the family studio in Wittenberg from a young age, where his responsibilities increased from 1530, particularly following the sudden death of his elder brother Hans in 1537. In 1550, the year that his father left Wittenberg to follow his patron into exile, Lucas Cranach the Younger became the official head of the family enterprise. . . . His output prior to 1550 remains in part undefined, as the influence of his father on his style was so pronounced at that period that it is difficult to distinguish their paintings. . . . Lucas Cranach the Younger continued to depict themes that his father had made popular, including portraits of the reformers, religious allegories, and classical subjects."
– from curator's notes at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid