Exemplatafeln - Das Urteil des Kambydes -Detail - Signature, Lucas Cranach the Elder

It depicts the story of the judge sisamnes, who was flayed for corruption. His son otanes was then appointed as judge and had to administer justice from a throne under his father's skin. Cranach's painting contains the flaying of sisamnes in a kind of simultaneous representation in the top right corner. Date: between circa 1540 and circa 1545. Dimensions: 209.4 × 107.1 cm (82.4 × 42.1 in). Medium: oil on linden wood. Collection: Jagdschloss Grunewald. Lucas Cranach der Ältere--Exemplumtafeln-Das Urteil des Kambydes-Detail-4911