# Sophrosyne [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Woodcut ## Commentary This woodcut is in Philipp Melanchthon's Enchiridion elementorum puerilium, published in Wittenberg, 1523. The Sophrosyne or Temperantia was conceived of by Melanchthon and executed by Cranach. The accompanying Greek verses name the author of the picture of Moderation, Lucas Cranach. They explain that the woodcut reflects one of Cranach's small paintings which hung in Melanchthon's private school. ## Related artworks - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion \(detail\)]() - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion]() - [A Prince of Saxony]() - [A Princess of Saxony]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()