Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: What's in a Coat-Of-Arms? 1
The Serpent 1
The Lamb 3
1 Cranach in History, Art, and Religion 6
Taking the Measure of Cranach 6
Painter and Entrepreneur 8
"Most German of the Germans" 10
Art and History 14
Dismal Analysis 22
Cranach at the Gate: Breaking the Renaissance Mold 24
2 Chasing Dürer 29
From Kronach to Wittenberg 29
Friedländer's "Twenty-two": Were Cranach's First Works His Best? 33
The Difference Time Makes: Trekking to Schleissheim 36
Beautiful People: The Cuspinians and the Reusses 44
The Body Ascetic and Erotic 51
On the Sunny Side 54
3 The Compleat Court Painter 57
Wittenberg Calling 57
The New Job 62
Changing Styles: The St. Catherine Altar 66
Praising Cranach in Word and Deed 69
Self-Assertion 75
Anticipating Luther 79
4 Workshop Wittenberg: Cranach Domestic and Entrepreneurial 89
Old House, New House 89
Barbara Brengbier Cranach 93
Cranach as Taskmaster 101
Publisher 106
The Cranach Pharmacy 117
5 Marketing Luther 119
Allies 119
The Artist and the Theologians 123
Worms, Wartburg, and Wittenberg: Luther Under Cover 135
Cranach in Halle, 1521-23: Luther Betrayed? 141
6 Gospel Art 148
Circling Wagons 148
Disenchanted Art? 152
Art and Revolution 157
The Malady of Genius and the Remedy of Faith 160
Cranach's Melancholy 165
Humankind's Best Friends 171
7 Cranach's Women 173
The Moral-Domestic Front 173
Fascinating Women 183
History and Myth: The Magdeburg Venus 193
Were Cranach's Women Tramps? 198
Antiquing Sex: The Politics of Art and Nudity 210
8 Women on Top 213
Defenders of the Fatherland 213
The Biblical Stories 217
Homicides and Suicides 223
Testing Testosterone 235
The Judgment of Paris: Still Judging After All This Time 237
Venus Waning, Amor Rising: Cranach Steals the Scene 242
The World We Have Lost 245
9 Remembering Cranach and Luther 251
Cranach in Exile 251
Cranach Goes to the Mountain 258
The Money Trail to the Grave 261
Cranach and Luther upon the Altars 264
Notes 281
Index 315
