Cover to be unveiled : how meaning is revealed with sheer veils in paintings by Lucas Cranach The Elder

While scholars have questioned the meaning of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s sheer veils when associated with sensual nude figures, research about sheer veils adorning women in a religious context in his paintings has not yet been developed. Through a primarily iconographical approach, I explore who dons each type of veil, and when, to better understand why the same sheer veil is worn differently by various individuals and what that could mean relative to Cranach’s body of work. These veils exhibit artistic prowess, but analysis of their placement on individual figures also reveals how Cranach’s repeated use of sheer veils in his paintings trains the eye on underlying messages, unlocking meanings of these works for Cranach and his patrons and broader themes present in sixteenth century visual culture. My paper initiates this important discussion about how sheer veils – often overlooked in Cranach’s works – are used in both religious and secular contexts.

Byzantine mosaics in Greece, Hosios Lucas & Daphni,

Bibliographical foot-notes.

Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts: : Part I--The principles of drawing in pencil, Part II--Colouring and shading in india ink, Part III--A treatise on perspective; : consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.

Poem "The colours" by E. Van Blon, part 2, p. [65]-66.

Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)

Anthony van Dyck; 4 ft. 1 1/64 in.x 3 ft. 3 39/64 in.; oil on canvas

Lucas Guevara.

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Quaestio quodlibetica cum argume[n]tis Fernandi Iaeni Cordubensis, in qua Mateus [et] Lucas ...

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Letters of Doctor Lucas and Doctor Oliver occasioned by a physical confederacy discovered in Bath.

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Evangelioa San Lucasen Guissan = El Evangelio segun S. Lucas /

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El Evangelio de Jesu Christo segun San Lucas en aymara y espanol. Traducido de la vulgata latina. Al aymara por don Vicente Pazos-Kanki, ... ; al español por el p. Phelipe Scio de San Miguel, ...

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Ordinaciones del Collegio de los gloriosos y bienauenturados sa[n]tos Sa[n] Lucas, San Cosme y San Damián, Sa[n] Valenti[n] y San Panthaleon [Manuscrito]

Falta texto de las Ordinaciones XXXVI-XXXXII, entre las hojas 33 y 34 (numeración actual). Falta también la mayor parte de la última hoja (h. 35), con pérdida de texto.

Trabajos de los Apostoles en la fundacion de la Iglesia Cristiana ó Hechos de estos escritos por San Lucas : con notas críticas á varios descuidos ... en la traduccion de la Historia Eclesiástica, escrita por ... Joseph Agustin de Orsi ... /

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Tratado de la perfeccion religiosa, y de la obligacion que todos los religiosos tienen de aspirar a ella compuesto en italiano por ... Lucas Pinelo de la Compañia de Iesus y en otra segunda edicion corregido y añadido por el mismo autor ; traducido por el P. Pablo Ioseph de Arriaga de la misma Compañia.

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Corona de predicadores o Predicacion de San Esteuan : dividida en tres partes ... escribiola S. Lucas en los capitulos 6.7.8. de los Actos /

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