# The Judgment of Paris, in The Northern Renaissance

Lucas Cranach the Elder painted this in about 1528, aged about 51. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Paris, dressed in the armour of a contemporary knight, sits beneath a tree as the three goddesses, Juno, Minerva and Venus, present themselves for his judgement, accompanied by Mercury, while Cupid appears above with his bow.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1528
- Medium: Oil on beech
- Dimensions: 40 1/8 x 28in. (101.9 x 71.1cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 28.221
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Lucas Cranach the Elder](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/lucas-cranach-the-elder), German, 1472–1553

Cranach worked in Vienna before becoming court painter to the Electors of Saxony at Wittenberg in 1505, a post he held for decades.

4 works in the collection.

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