中文简介：

这是一本经济实惠的指南，介绍了德国文艺复兴时期的伟大艺术家的主要主题和图案老卢卡斯·克拉纳赫（Lucas Cranach，1472-1553）一生创作了约500件作品。由于为马丁·路德（Martin Luther）和菲利普·梅兰希通（Philipp Melanchton）画肖像，并担任腓特烈贤者的宫廷画家，克拉纳赫迅速成为改革时期****的画家之一。同时，克拉纳赫是**个将意大利文艺复兴时期的传统人体作品转化为阿尔卑斯山以北的德国艺术的人；他对爱神维纳斯富有吸引力、几乎不加掩饰的描绘，就是这方面的见证。在维也纳艺术史博物馆举办划时代的克拉纳赫展览之际，奥地利小说家特蕾莎·普劳尔（Teresa Präauer）从A到Z探索了这位忙碌的画家王子的作品。她既关注克拉纳赫的艺术，也关注围绕他的社会、他所画的主题以及影响其发展的事件。

英文简介：

An affordable guide to the main themes and motifs of this much-loved genius of the Northern RenaissanceLucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) created around 500 works during his lifetime. With his portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchton, and in his position as court painter to Frederick the Wise, Cranach quickly became one of the most sought-after painters of the Reformation. At the same time, Cranach was the first to translate the Italian Renaissance tradition of the life-size nude into art north of the Alps; his lascivious, barely veiled depiction of Venus, the goddess of love, bears witness to this.On the occasion of the epochal Cranach exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Austrian novelist Teresa Präauer explores the work of this busy prince of painters from A to Z. She focuses both on Cranach's art and on the society that surrounded him, the subjects he painted and the events that shaped his development.