The introduction to the television series Desperate Housewives is recognizable by its branding image: Adam and Eve under a tree. Lucas Cranach, the Elder, painted it.  You may have heard of the Louvre’s fund raiser to purchase “Les Trois Grâces” for four million euros. They succeeded. The artist? Lucas Cranach, the Elder. Although his is not a household name you have just been introduced to a modern style painter of the Renaissance. The Musée du Luxembourg, after a French Senate shutdown in 2010, inaugurated its reopening on February 9, 2011 with an exhibit of a major figure in the German Renaissance, Lucas Cranach (1472-1553). His early woodcut drawings are reminiscent…