The Graphic Works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, his Sons and the Workshop. Interdisciplinary Analysis and Development of a Networked Research Resource

老卢卡斯·克拉纳赫是德国文艺复兴时期最重要的代表人物之一，也是最富有成果的代表人物之一。他作为德国和欧洲宗教改革绘画语言的发明者和调解人的重要作用是无可争议的。他也被认为是阿尔卑斯山以北最重要的宫廷画家之一。虽然在过去的10年中，绘画和档案文件已被系统地编目在克拉纳赫数字档案馆（CDA）的跨学科和合作研究倡议的背景下，没有这样的全面和学术可持续的目录克拉纳赫的广泛分散的版画和绘画作品存在，尽管他们的伟大的艺术价值和意义的传播改革的想法。该项目的目的是开发一个系统的在线数字目录的c。300张图纸和C。600幅Lucas Cranach the Elder、他的儿子和工作室的版画，提供高分辨率图像，并提供英语和德语的艺术历史、技术和保护信息。它将成为一个平台，专业人士和公众都可以从这个平台上获取目前存放在不同机构的所有信息。通过与Graphikportal等其他门户网站和各种博物馆数据库的合作，并在CDA经验的基础上，它将成为未来类似目录的原型，以记录复杂的印刷品和绘画作品。除了有关主题和主题的问题外，还将记录和研究与对象相关的方面，例如原始块与其后续状态之间的关系，印象的时间顺序及其作为书籍插图或其他用途，从而提供有关传播和使用时期的宝贵信息。一个系统的技术检查应该提供一个更可靠的艺术史评估的真实性，日期，传播和相关的当代功能和每件作品的意义的基础。此外，CDA的当前内容提供了一个独特的机会，可以在更广泛的原始来源中检查印刷品和图纸。由于CDA已经在世界范围内每天都被大量的参观者使用，印刷品和绘画的加入将显示出非常富有成效的克拉纳赫研讨会在其对维滕贝格政治和宗教发展的多样化参与中所利用的更广泛的出版领域，当时维滕贝格是一个政治和宗教强国。因此，克拉纳赫版画和绘画的数字化和编目对于保护和传播德国文艺复兴时期的艺术和文化遗产至关重要。

Lucas Cranach the Elder is not only one of the most important representatives of the German Renaissance, but also one of the most productive. His vital role as inventor and mediator of a Reformation pictorial language in Germany and Europe is indisputable. He is also recognised as one of the foremost court painters North of the Alps. While over the last 10 years the paintings and archival documents have been systematically catalogued in the Cranach Digital Archive (CDA) within the context of an interdisciplinary and collaborative research initiative, no such comprehensive and scholarly sustainable catalogue of Cranach’s widely dispersed oeuvre of prints and drawings exists, despite their great artistic value and significance for the dissemination of Reformation ideas. The aim of this project is to develop a systematic online digital catalogue of the c. 300 drawings and c. 600 prints by Lucas Cranach the Elder, his sons and workshop, providing high resolution images and access to art historical, technical and conservation information in both English and German. It will serve as a platform from which all information, currently housed in different institutions, will be made accessible to professionals and the general public alike.In cooperation with other portals like the Graphikportal, various Museum databases, and building on the experience of the CDA it would serve as a prototype for future similar catalogues of its kind to document a complex oeuvre of prints and drawings. In addition to questions regarding the motif and subject, object related aspects would also be documented and researched, such as the relationship between the original block and its subsequent states, the chronology of impressions and their use as book illustration or otherwise, thus providing valuable information on the dissemination and period of use. A systematic technical examination should provide a basis for a more reliable art historical evaluation of the authenticity, dating, dissemination and associated contemporary function and significance of each work. Furthermore, the present content of the CDA provides a unique opportunity to examine the prints and drawings within a wider spectrum of primary sources. As the CDA is already used worldwide on a daily basis by a great number of visitors the inclusion of the prints and drawings would show the considerably wider field of publication exploited by the extremely productive Cranach workshop in its diverse involvement in the political and confessional development of Wittenberg, a political and religious powerhouse at that time. Consequently, the digitalization and cataloguing of Cranach’s prints and drawings is of central importance for the preservation and propagation of the artistic and cultural heritage of the German Renaissance.