Saint Maurice is a painting attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop depicting Saint Maurice, an early Christian martyr from North Africa.[1][2] Cranach has depicted St. Maurice as a Black man, a tradition that became increasingly common in European art, starting in the thirteenth century.[1]
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| Artist | Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop |
| Year | ca. 1520-1525 |
| Medium | Oil on linden |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
It was donated to and restored within the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Originally inspected for authenticity, infrared reflectography was used to determine what parts of the painting may have been completed by Cranach alone or with help from his workshop.[1]
Notes
edit- ^ a b c "Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop | Saint Maurice". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
- ^ "Smarthistory – Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop, Saint Maurice". smarthistory.org. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
References
edit- Paul H. D. Kaplan. "Redeploying a Saint: The Black Maurice and the Shifting Iconography of Blackness in Post-Reformation Germany and the Baltics." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte vol. 86, no. 3 (2023), p. 363 n. 29, p. 366 n. 62.
- Maryan Ainsworth, Sandra Hindriks, and Pierre Terjanian. "Lucas Cranach's 'Saint Maurice'." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 72 (Spring 2015), pp. 1–46.
- T. F. Earle and K. J. P. Lowe, eds., Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, Cambridge, 2005
- Erin Kathleen Rowe, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
External links
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