CRANACH, Lucas the Younger
(b. 1515, Wittenberg, d. 1586, Weimar)

Patiencia victrix

1541
Woodcut
Herzog August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Patiencia victrix, which the publisher Moritz Goltze had drawn as his device in 1541 - - through Lucas Cranach the Younger - stands chastely clothed before a crucifix at the foot of which rests the patient lamb.