Today is the commemoration day of Reformation artists Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Durer, April 6 being the day the latter artist died. I hope you will enjoy your day off, get the art present you were hoping for, and enjoy your traditional Cranach & Durer day dinner of boar roasted on a spit.
I don’t know. How SHOULD we celebrate such a day, if we celebrated it?
Though we have many grave issues to consider and fine Holy Week meditations to contemplate, we will devote this day to the patron of our blog with all-arts posts, broadly considered.
Meanwhile, I present these for your Cranach Day observances:
A British art critic marveling at last year’s huge exhibit of his art at the Royal Academy, saying that Cranach is our contemporary. Which suggests to me that his faith and his theology–which contributed to his freedom, his range, his creativity, and his embrace of existence–can also have a profound resonance to our contemporary culture.
A whole blog exploring in detail Cranach’s Weimer altarpiece: A Painting That Preaches Christ
Also, I’ll be on Issues, Etc. today talking about the artists.
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