Lucas Cranach
One of the most exquisite works of art inside Erfurt Cathedral is Lucas Cranach the Elder's 'The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine' featuring St. Catherine and Barbara. This panel painting can be found in the aisle to the north of the cathedral nave. It is believed that the painting, which bears Cranach's signature emblem of a winged snake but no date, first appeared in the 1520s. It was not until 1948 that it was incorporated into a baroque altar.
Erfurt's Anger Museum contains further works from the Cranach studio, including most notably 'Holy Night' and 'Christ Blessing the Children' (1537).
Places of Interest - Cranach
Cathedral of St. Mary
The late Gothic cathedral with its high-Gothic choir and Romanesque tower replaced the church built on this site for Bishop Boniface in 742.
Angermuseum
Built in 1705-1711, the Electorate of Mainz's packing and weighing house is one of the most beautiful secular buildings of the Baroque period in central Germany.
