Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop, Saint Maurice, c. 1520–25, oil on linden, 137.2 x 39.4 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) A conversation with Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker
Additional resources
Read about this painting on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website
Learn more about the expanding the renaissance initiative
Learn more about an exhibition at The Met that framed this painting
Read more about Lucas Cranach the Elder
Read more about sixteenth-century northern Renaissance art
Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art on the Google Art Project
Joaneath Spicer, ed., Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe (Baltimore: The Walters Museum, 2013)
Maryan Ainsworth, Sandra Hindriks, and Pierre Terjanian, “Lucas Cranach’s Saint Maurice,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 72, no. 4 (Spring, 2015)
T. F. Earle and K. J. P. Lowe, eds., Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, Cambridge, 2005
Erin Kathleen Rowe, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
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