Gallery workers hang a painting entitled ‘The Golden Age 1530′ by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Sex, politics and religion may not be the form at dinner parties, but they made Lucas Cranach a fortune. He printed Luther’s version of the New Testament, served three times as Mayor of Wittenberg, was at one point the richest man in town and owned a liquor-licensed pharmacy that was a sure-fire winner in an [...]