CRANACH, Lucas the Elder (b. 1472, Kronach, d. 1553, Weimar) |
Portrait of Margaretha Luther (detail)1527Oil and tempera on red beechwood Wartburg-Stiftung, Eisenach | |
Martin Luther's mother shows the strain of having raised nine children, but she seems comfortable with herself and presents a dignified, more relaxed pendant to Albrecht Dürer's expressive 1514 charcoal drawing of his sick mother. |