\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This painting was acquired in 1804 following the confiscation of the property of ecclesiastical institutions. An intensely
dramatic work, it has extremely realistic elements that Cranach uses in an expressive manner to accentuate the pathos of the scene, which is set in a Northern European landscape. The artist has shown great daring by not following symmetry in the composi