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Hans Holbein: portrait of an unknown man

✍ Scribed by Wilson, Derek, K;Holbein, Hans

Publisher
Random House;Vintage Digital
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

One of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Hans Holbein the Younger was also a complex and fascinating man who knew Erasmus, Thomas More, Henry VIII and many of the sixteenth century's wielders of power and influence. He developed his own distinctive attitudes towards religion, politics and social life as he moved among stalwart burghers, merchant adventurers and the bejewelled denizens of a glittering court.

The Elizabethan artist Nicolas Hilliard recognised him as 'the greatest Master in [portraiture] that ever was'. Yet the range of Holbein's talent went far beyond painting likenesses. He was constantly in demand for trompe-l'oeil murals and intricate jewellery designs, and he revolutionized book illustration. He produced Catholic altarpieces and Protestant propaganda engravings, woodcuts and drawings depicting the stories of the bible.

In this fascinating biography, acclaimed historian Derek Wilson...

✦ Subjects

Portrait painters;Portrait painters--Germany;Spies;Spies--England;;Biography;;Biographies;History;Holbein, Hans, -- 1497-1543;Portrait painters -- Germany -- Biography;Spies -- England -- Biography;Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547;England;Germany;Great Britain

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