Exhibition: “The Fashion for Cranach”
The exhibition celebrates the paintings of the Reformation period from Wroclaw and Silesia to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the publishing of the Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther in Wittenberg.
The exhibition celebrates the paintings of the Reformation period from Wroclaw and Silesia to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the publishing of the Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther in Wittenberg. The art of Lucas Cranach the Elder, his circle and their influence in Silesia, is the key to the presentation. The exhibition will feature old prints from the collection of the National Museum in Wrocław (Martin Luther’s translations of the Bible richly illustrated with Cranach’s woodcuts, draughts of the epitaph compositions and prints from Cranach’s circle), from the University of Wrocław Library (old prints and manuscripts, including the first edition of Luther’s Bible, postils, works by Silesian reverends and a collection drawings portraying the residents of Wrocław) and the Archdiocese Museum (e.g. the Breslauer Madonna by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the Reformated Church Allegory from Nowy Kościół near Świerzawa). One more important part of the exhibition is the archive documentation of the works that have not been able to survive and used to feature in Wrocław museum collections.
