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Hans Holbein the Younger (UK: / ˈ h ɒ l b aɪ n / HOL-byne, [2] US: / ˈ h oʊ l b aɪ n, ˈ h ɔː l-/ HOHL-byne, HAWL-; [3] [4] [5] German: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; c. 1497 [6] – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. [7]
Self-portrait, c. 1542–43.Coloured chalks and pen, heightened with gold, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. This list of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger contains a selection of the artist's best-known paintings, as well as a few copies and derivatives of his art, some of which relate to lost works.
Hans Holbein the Younger's Noli me tangere a relatively rare Protestant oil painting of Christ from the Reformation period. It is small, and generally naturalistic in style, avoiding iconic elements like the halo, which is barely discernible.
The two halves chosen by Holbein correspond to Protestant interpretations of the Bible, which saw the Old Testament as describing a time of sin and punishment compared to the New Testament showing the way to salvation, [7] with Christ and his Evangelists contained as a mystery in the Old Testament and revealed in the New. [5]
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Lais of Corinth, Limewood, 34.6 × 26.8 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel. Lais of Corinth is an oil-and-tempera painting on wood completed in 1526 by the German-Swiss Northern Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger.
There is an old copy of this portrait in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia in Palermo. [9]Elements of the Vienna portrait have been copied by other artists. Portrait of an Unknown Man in the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is a pastiche: the copyist has attached the head of the portrait of Duke Antony the Good of Lorraine to the body of the Portrait of a Young ...
Holbein gave the painting to the King as the 1539 New Year's gift. [74] [75] Another drawing of Edward by Holbein, produced only a few years later, is also in the Royal Collection. [76] Edward, Prince of Wales [76] c. 1540 – c. 1543: Black and coloured chalks, and pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper. 27.3 × 22.7 cm