Royal Academy of Arts Magazine

No. 98

Spring 2008

Features

How Lucas Cranach the Elder mastered the art of negotiating the religious and political currents of his time.

The fascinating hidden meanings of Cranach’s great altarpiece.

The profound influence of Cranach on the German Expressionists, as well as today’s artists.

How Cranach’s diptych of the first couple became the title credit for TV’s Desperate Housewives.

An exploration of the extraordinary influence of peasant life on early modern Russian art.

Secret Knowledge: Sir Norman Rosenthal.

COVER: Cranach’s 1526 version of the Fall of Man.

For more information please see the contents page which I have scanned and attached; see photos.