Sandra Hindriks: Exemplary productivity. On the topicality of depictions of the Holy Kinship around 1500

Cranach's repeated depictions of the Holy Kinship testify to the popularity of a motif that was also realized by many artists elsewhere in ambitious commissioned works at the same time. The background to this popularity was the cult of St. Anne, which flourished in the second half of the 15th century and the first half of the 16th century. This lecture will focus on some of these paintings to demonstrate the particular topicality of the subject.

Lecture in German

Sandra Hindriks studied art history, political science, and medieval and modern history at the University of Bonn, where she obtained her doctorate in 2015 with a dissertation on The ‘vlaemsche Apelles’ – Jan van Eyck’s early fame and the Dutch ‘Renaissance’. Since October 2020, she has been an assistant professor at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna. Her main research interest is Northern Alpine painting of the 15th and 16th centuries; currently she is mainly concerned with theories of the image and visual perception at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period.