The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1510
Why it's great
A young woman kneels in a beautiful forest while a man raises a sword over her. Lucas Cranach the Elder painted it in about 1510, and it is a lovely, quiet picture of a dark story.
Where to see it
📍 Metropolitan Museum of ArtManhattan, United States
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Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German painter born in Kronach in 1472. He became court painter to the rulers of Saxony in Wittenberg, was a close friend of Martin Luther, and ran a busy workshop that made portraits, religious scenes and the first Protestant images. He died in Weimar in 1553.
