Lucas Cranach the Younger Works Online
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Original works by Lucas Cranach available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Martin Luther and Phillipp Melanchthon, 1558
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
Lucas Cranach at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)
Faites venire a moi les enfants
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
The Lamentation, ca.1550
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, 1558
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Lucas Cranach in the Art Renewal Center
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Lucas Cranach at CGFA 
Lucas Cranach in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Farbdia Archiv (Color Slide Archive) (in German)
Thousands of photographs of fresco cycles and wall decorations in churches and other buildings in and around Germany.
Click "Galerie" for a normal overview; click "digilib" to zoom in.
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
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