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‘[Lucas Cranach the Elder]* developed in Wittenberg** the full-length portrait in which the sitter is rendered with consummate skill and fidelity. He was a personal friend of Martin Luther, and is probably best known for his portraits of the great reformer. At the same time his “Reclining River Nymph at the Fountain” of 1518[ce] in Leipzig illustrates his knowledge of Giorgione and Venetian painting and points the way to the group of highly erotic female nudes of his later works.’

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**(where ‘his style changed radically’)**

*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:] 352

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