"Christ and the Adultress"

Younger son of Lucas Cranach the Elder, this artist was born in Wittenberg in 1515. Among his most important oil paintings are those painted in 1555 for the exiled John Frederick, former Elector of Saxony, for whom Lucas Cranach the Younger painted a large triptych on the theme of Original Sin and Redemption for the church of Saints Peter and Paul in Weimar. Lucas Cranach the Younger continued to depict themes that his father had made popular including portraits of the reformers, religious allegories and classical subjects.