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Cupid complaining to Venus
CRANACH Probably 1530s
Inscribed, top right: dvm pver alveo
(lo) f (vratvr me)lla cvpido/fvranti digitvm cv(spide) 
f(ixit) apis/sic etiam nobis brevis et (peri)tvra
volvptas/ qvam petimvs tri (s)t(i) (m)ixta dolore n(o)cet.
Signed on the stone bottom right with Cranach's device Wood, 
81.3 x 54.6 cm. No. 6344, Purchased, 1963.
*Cupid complains to *Venus of being stung by bees 
when stealing a honeycomb. This is to be taken 
as a moral commentary; as the inscription observes: 
‘life’s pleasure is mixed with pain.’
The subject derives (but the last two lines of the
inscription do not) from Theocritus’ Idyll 19 
(The Honeycomb Stealer). Two Latin translations 
of 1522 and 1528 by German scholars are known. 
Johann Hess,a humanist, made, in his copy of one of them,
the manuscript note Tabella Luce, which means 
Picture by Lucus, perhaps referring to this work by Cranach.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder 
Wait for a moment
(Lucas Cranach der Ältere, 1472 – October 16, 1553) was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving.
He was born at Kronach in upper Franconia, and learned the art of drawing from his father. It has not been possible to trace his descent or the name of his parents. His name of birth is differently known as Sünder, Sunder or Sonder. Later he overtook the name of his place of birth. We are not informed as to the school in which he was taught, and it is a mere guess that he took lessons from the south German masters to whom Matthias Grunewald owed his education. But Grunewald practised at Bamberg and Aschaffenburg, and Bamberg is the capital of the diocese in which Cronach lies.

According to Gunderam, the tutor of Cranach's children, Cranach signalized his talents as a painter before the close of the 15th century. He then drew upon himself the attention of the elector of Saxony, who attached him to his person in 1504. The records of Wittenberg confirm Gunderam's statement to this extent that Cranach's name appears for the first time in the public accounts on the 24th of June 1504, when he drew 50 gulden for the salary of half a year, as pictor ducalis.

The only clue to Cranach's settlement previous to his Wittenberg appointment is afforded by the knowledge that he owned a house at Gotha, and that Barbara Brengbier, his wife, was the daughter of a burgher of that city.

Adam & Eve woodcu
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