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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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Susan Foister

From National Gallery Catalogues, forthcoming: 'The German Paintings before 1800'.

Publication notes  

This full catalogue entry of Cranach’s Saints Genevieve and Apollonia and Saints Christina and Ottilia ('The St Catherine Altarpiece: Reverses of Shutters'), taken from 'The German Paintings before 1800’ by Susan Foister, is published on the Gallery website in advance of book publication.

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Susan Foister is Deputy Director, Director of Public Engagement and Curator of Early Netherlandish, German, and British Paintings. 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.

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Saints Genevieve and Apollonia, 1506, NG6511.1

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Saints Christina and Ottilia, 1506, NG6511.2

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To cite this catalogue entry we suggest using:

Susan Foister, 'Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop, Saints Genevieve and Apollonia and Saints Christina and Ottilia (The St Catherine Altarpiece: Reverses of Shutters)' published online 2015, from 'The German Paintings before 1800', London: forthcoming.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/lucas-cranach-the-elder-and-workshop-saints-genevieve-and-apollonia-christina-and-ottilia

General references

Friedländer 1911, pp. 25–6; Posse 1936, pp. 243–8; Friedländer and Rosenberg 1978, no. 15; Parris 1974, p. 48ff., p. 756, note 40; NG Annual Report, 1985–7, pp. 32–4; Marx 1996; Marx and Mössinger 2005; Heydenreich 2007.

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