The German master #LucasCranach was a busy bee. He and his workshop created over 5000 works of #Art. Clearly, there was a market.

Victorian cognoscenti thought otherwise. German #Renaissance paintings were barely collectable being considered primitive and ugly, 'repulsive', even. A most visceral reaction.

Post WWII tastes were more enlightened, and supply meant good #Cranach's could still be reasonably acquired. Sadly, too late for the #NationalGallery whose only #Dürer cost them £10m in 1996.

The German master #LucasCranach was a busy bee. He and his workshop created over 5000 works of #Art. Clearly, there was a market.

Victorian cognoscenti thought otherwise. German #Renaissance paintings were barely collectable being considered primitive and ugly, 'repulsive', even. A most visceral reaction.

Post WWII tastes were more enlightened, and supply meant good #Cranach's could still be reasonably acquired. Sadly, too late for the #NationalGallery whose only #Dürer cost them £10m in 1996.

For Monday morning - four times Cupid was *not* in the mood in Renaissance art.

1) Venus Blindfolding Cupid from the workshop of Titian, c. 1566-70 or c. 1576-80.
2) Venus and Amor from the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger (1526-28).
3) Venus Playing the Lute with Cupid (last quarter of the 1500s).
4) Cupid complaining to Venus by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1526-27).

#Monday #MondayMorning #Art #RenaissanceArt #Cupid #Eros #Titian ##HansHolbien #LucasCranach

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The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion, 1538 #lucascranach #lucascranachtheelder https://www.wikiart.org/en/lucas-cranach-the-elder/the-crucifixion-with-the-converted-centurion-1538

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Knight in Armor Riding toward the Right, 1506 #northernrenaissance #lucascranach