Down the generations
From the series Remember mePortrait of Sibylle van Kleef with her son Johann Friedrich, Lucas Cranach I (1472-1553), ca. 1532–1535. Royal Collection, London.
Continuation of the family line was a top priority. Showing members of multiple generations together in a portrait embedded the family’s status, power and/or wealth.
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