Saint Maurice is a painting attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop depicting Saint Maurice, an early Christian martyr from North Africa.[1][2] Cranach has depicted St. Maurice as a Black man, a tradition that became increasingly common in European art, starting in the thirteenth century.[1]
| Saint Maurice | |
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| Artist | Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop |
| Year | ca. 1520-1525 |
| Medium | Oil on linden |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
Notes
edit- ^ a b "Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop | Saint Maurice". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
- ^ "Smarthistory – Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop, Saint Maurice". smarthistory.org. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
References
edit- Paul H. D. Kaplan. "Redeploying a Saint: The Black Maurice and the Shifting Iconography of Blackness in Post-Reformation Germany and the Baltics." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte vol. 86, no. 3 (2023), p. 363 n. 29, p. 366 n. 62.
- Maryan Ainsworth, Sandra Hindriks, and Pierre Terjanian. "Lucas Cranach's 'Saint Maurice'." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 72 (Spring 2015), pp. 1–46.
- T. F. Earle and K. J. P. Lowe, eds., Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, Cambridge, 2005
- Erin Kathleen Rowe, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
External links
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