The German Paintings before 1800

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Susan Foister

Susan Foister is Deputy Director of the National Gallery and Curator of Early Netherlandish and German Painting. Her publications include: J. Dunkerton, D. Gordon, S. Foister, and N. Penny, ‘Giotto to Dürer’, New Haven and London 1991; S. Foister, A. Roy, M. Wyld, ‘Making and Meaning, Holbein’s 'Ambassadors’, exh. cat., National Gallery London 1997; S. Foister, ’ Holbein and England’, New Haven and London 2004.

Biography: Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of a Woman

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of Johann the Steadfast and Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous

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Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop, Saints Genevieve and Apollonia and Saints Christina and Ottilia (The St Catherine Altarpiece: Reverses of Shutters)

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Cupid complaining to Venus

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Primitive People

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Charity

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of Johannes Feige

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