Keywords: costume Portrait of Princess Sybille of Cleves, Wife of Johann Friedrich the Magnaminous of Saxony, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, oil on panel, 21 by 15 inches The princess was 14 years old when Cranach painted this bethrothal portrait. She grew up at court at Dusseldorf with her sister Anne, one of the future wives of Henry VIII. "Her marriage into the House of Saxony placed Sybille in the middle of the greatest ideological struggle of the sixteeenth century, a reformation not only of the church but also of the state." Portrait of Princess Sybille of Cleves, Wife of Johann Friedrich the Magnaminous of Saxony, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, oil on panel, 21 by 15 inches The princess was 14 years old when Cranach painted this bethrothal portrait. She grew up at court at Dusseldorf with her sister Anne, one of the future wives of Henry VIII. "Her marriage into the House of Saxony placed Sybille in the middle of the greatest ideological struggle of the sixteeenth century, a reformation not only of the church but also of the state." |