Torgauer Altar

The "Holy Kinship" is shown resting in a lavishly decorated room, including marble columns and stone benches.

[2] The three men depicted in the gallery have been identified as having the likenesses of Emperor Maximilian (centre), Imperial Councillor Sixtus Oelhafen (right) and the artist (left).

It is suggested that the choice and treatment of the subject shows that he knew the St Anne altarpiece by Quinten Metsys while still in the master's Antwerp studio.

Cranach chose an explicitly German theme by means of the forested and mountainous landscape in the background, and including portraits of Emperor Maximilian, Elector Frederick the Wise and his brother, Duke John the Steadfast, among members of the Holy Family.

[3] The triptych was purchased by the Städel Museum Frankfurt in 1906 at auction in Paris.