Lucas Cranach and Beauty
Girls, Foliage, Water and Fruit
30 May 2008
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Cranach went as far as Matisse towards confusing, or identifying, beauty with sexiness, and perhaps further towards using paint’s affinity with flesh to make the connection. Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, demonstrates how Cranach, like Kant, associated beauty with nature – foliage, water and fruit – but also with girls.
In the Reynolds Room; 6.30-7.30pm
