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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Torgau Altarpiece: Holy Kinship  wikidata:Q64873669 reasonator:Q64873669
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Edit this at Wikidata Weimar Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Holy Kinship Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The Holy Kinship Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The Holy Kinship Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lde,"Torgauer Altar: Heilige Sippe"
Part of Torgau Altarpiece Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description

The side and central panels describe a a great hall with blue grey walls and three-colored tiles.
central panel: depicts Joseph, who seems asleep, the Virgin, dressed in blue with yellow lining, Anna and the Christ Child on her knee, who is stretching out his hand towards an apple given to him by Virgin Mary. Anna's three husbands following the Golden Legend are shown in the background in the matroneum: on the left Joachim, who is attracted by the holy women in front of him and whose relation is also shown by the corresponding blue and yellow color of his dress, Cleophas (with the physiognomy and chain of Emperor Maximilian I and Salomas (eventually with the physiognomy of Sixtus Oelhafen von Schöllenbach, secretary of Friedrich III., Maximilian I. and Karl V. Charles V.]]., who are talking to each other.
There is an architectural structure by a great stone bench in the foreground of the central panel with two marble columns on the sides, over which is strectched a cloth of gold. On the right column is a tablet with date and signature. The parapet of the matroneum is decorated by a sculptured frieze with dancing putti holding six escutcheons with the six fields of Electorate of Saxony. In the hall are shown the 17 members of the Holy Kinship. In the central panel are shown two more children of Mary Cleophas and Alpheus, the Apostles Simon, patron saint of weavers, dyers, tanners and saddlers and Jude, who miss ionized and suffered their martyrdom together and therefore are regularly depicted together.

right panel: St Mary Salome and Zebedee (with the features of Fredericks III, Elector of Saxony brother, Herzog Johann der Beständige. St Mary Salome, dressed in gold with dark red lining is combing her son Saint James the Greater and while Saint John the Evangelist is hiding in her dress.
left outer wing: Madonna with Child, right outer wing: Saint Anne
Date 1509
date QS:P571,+1509-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium mixed media on lime
Dimensions height: 121.1 cm (47.6 in); width: 100.4 cm (39.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,121.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,100.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q163804
Accession number
1398
Place of creation Wittenberg
Credit line 21.-28.8.1906 erworben auf der Auktion der Sammlung Molinier bei Brame, Paris mit Hilfe der Stadt Frankfurt, privater Kunstfreunde, des Städelschen Museumsvereins und der Carl Schaub'schen Stiftung
Inscriptions Signature, date Artist's insignia on the plaque attached to the right column [LVCAS CHRONVS FACIEBAT ANNO 1509] [painted by Lucas Cranach 1509]
Deutsch: Die Latinisierung Chronus für Kronach ist in Lukas Cranachs Werk einzigartig sowie der Gebrauch des Imperfektes faciebat und ist möglicherweise zurückzuführen auf einen Widmungsbrief aus dem selben Jahr des von Lucas Cranach porträtierten Humanisten, Professorn an der juristischen Fakultät in Wittenberg, der mit der Anrede Chronus ein auf dem Zeitfaktor beruhendes Künstlerlob aussprach.
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) No.: FR018
Das Gemälde „Die 14 Nothelfer“ am Kopf der Grabplatte der Sophie von Mecklenburg, Kurfürstin von Sachsen, in der Torgaues Stadtkirche St. Marien wurde um 1507 von Lucas Cranach d.Ä. angefertigt wurde und war Teil des Altars zum Gedächtnis der Kurfürstin.
References

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
hr-online
[1][2][3] by Cranach Digital Archive
Bodo Brinkmann, Stephan Kemperdick: Die Heilige Sippe, der sog. Torgauer Altar

Iris Ritschel: Der Frankfurter „Annenaltar" von Lucas Cranach dem Älteren aus dem Jahr 1509 - ein Werk aus der Marienkirche zu Torgau? (online)
Web Gallery of Art
wege-zu-cranach.de/torgau
Source/Photographer The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.

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