Literatura e Arte
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Cranach the Elder for Gawain's eyes
From the RAU COLLECTION, now in Lisbon, this Judith (1525).
Cranach being a friend of Luther, recently at odds with the Pope and the Church (1517 ) this picture acquires an extra symbolic sense : the sword of virtue slaining the head of all evils.
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