File:Cranach the Elder Christ blessing the children.jpg

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Summary

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Christ blessing the children.

Artist



Alternative names	Lucas Cranach
Description	-German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death	4 October 1472	16 October 1553
Location of birth/death	Kronach	Weimar
Work location	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file	: Q191748 VIAF: 49268177 ISNI: 0000000121319721 ULAN: 500115364 LCCN: n50020861 NLA: 35031951 WorldCat

Title

German:

Christus segnet die Kinder

Christ blessing the children.

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Date

after 1537

Medium

paint on lime panel

Dimensions

height: 77.5 cm (30.5 in); width: 122 cm (48 in)

Collection

Wawel Castle

	Native name	Zamek Królewski na Wawelu
	Location	Kraków
	Coordinates	50° 03′ 15.84″ N, 19° 56′ 11.76″ E
	Established	1930 (Museum)
	Website	www.wawel.krakow.pl
	Authority file	: Q18820 VIAF: 312997222 ISNI: 0000000109464571 LCCN: n79135471 OSM: 2270819 GND: 2017359-3 WorldCat

Accession number

1716

Object history

1922: purchased by director of the State Art Collection in Warsaw from Bishop Ignacy Dubowski
1928: transferred to Wawel Castle

1940s: transferred to Nazi Germany
1968: transferred to Wawel Castle

Inscriptions

top:

VND SIE BRACHTEN KINDLIN ZV IM DAS ER SIE ANRVRETE MARCUS AM X

Notes

Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) FR -

References

Source/Photographer

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Licensing

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current	11:04, 26 January 2013	2,536 × 1,611 (2.77 MB)	BurgererSF	Dim
	09:43, 9 December 2012	600 × 383 (155 KB)	BurgererSF	Brightness
	23:57, 12 November 2012	600 × 383 (42 KB)	Schneider Ludwig	better wersion
	21:06, 20 October 2012	400 × 241 (111 KB)	BurgererSF	after conservation
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