id: 161272 accession number: 1999.47 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.47 updated: 2020-11-04 21:49:16.268000 Saint George Slaying the Dragon, c. 1510-1515. Lucas Cranach (German, 1472-1553). Woodcut; sheet: 16.3 x 12.7 cm (6 7/16 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1999.47 title: Saint George Slaying the Dragon title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1510-1515 creation date earliest: 1510 creation date latest: 1515 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, 16th century technique: woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Woodcut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 82 --- CREATORS * Lucas Cranach (German, 1472-1553) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 16.3 x 12.7 cm (6 7/16 x 5 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints opening date: 2000-09-17T00:00:00 From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000). title: Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection opening date: 2003-08-17T00:00:00 Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In 1505, Cranach became court painter to Friedrich the Wise, Elector of Saxony, who encouraged the production of prints because they promoted the artistic and intellectual vitality of his court and the magnificence of its patronage. The Holy Roman emperor Maximilian did the same, making aristocratic sponsorship of printmaking a critical factor in the rising status of the woodcut. Cranach-together with Albrecht Dürer in Nuremberg and Hans Burgkmair in Augsburg (both on view nearby)-elevated the Northern woodcut to the highest level of artistic expression in the first decade of the 16th century. Friedrich's coat of arms (crossed swords) and the arms of Saxony appear prominently on most of Cranach's prints, suggesting that the artist worked under a kind of retainer-though the arms may also have operated somewhat like a privilege, an exclusive authorization to publish prints under Friedrich's legal protection. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Contemporary German Painting Acquired by CMA,” June 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4262 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.47/1999.47_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.47/1999.47_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.47/1999.47_full.tif