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Master of the Housebook
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Master of the Housebook (lived late 15th century)

Anonymous German painter and engraver. He is called after the drawings in the Hausbuch of Castle Wolfegg in the Rhineland. His engravings show scenes of everyday life. One of his paintings is The Lovers of Gotha (Castle Museum, Gotha).
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In classical times Mercury was thought of as an unageing youth and, indeed, the stepson of Juno, one of the competing goddesses, but the astrologers of the Middle Ages saw him as an elderly sage who, in his planetary guise, presided over artists and scholars; which is how Cranach's contemporary, the Master of the Housebook, depicted him.
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