Download or read book Lucas Cranach the Elder written by Bonnie Noble and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Cranach's Reformation painting to a broader audience and explains the pictorial strategies Cranach devised to clarify and interpret Lutheran thought. For specialists in Reformation history, this study offers an interpretation of Cranach's art as an agent of religious change. For historians and students of Renaissance art, this study explores the defining work of a major sixteenth-century artist.