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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]
The most notable and famous of Holbein's symbols in the work is the distorted skull which is placed in the bottom centre of the composition. The skull, rendered in anamorphic perspective , another invention of the Early Renaissance , is meant to be a visual puzzle as the viewer must approach the painting from high on the right side, or low on ...
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.
Coat of Arms of Jane Seymour, with the augmentation of honour granted by Henry VIII on her marriage: Or, on a pile gules between six fleurs-de-lys azure three lions of England. [ 2 ] Portrait of a Lady, probably a Member of the Cromwell Family is an oil on panel portrait completed in around 1535–1540 by Hans Holbein the Younger now at the ...
Hans Holbein the Younger moved to England in 1526-28 from Basle, Switzerland. [2] On Holbein's first visit to England, he carried a letter of introduction from the Dutch humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam introducing him to scholar and stateman Sir Thomas More. [3] More commissioned Hans Holbein the Younger for a group portrait of his family.
Heinrich Glarean, portrait sketch by Hans Holbein the Younger. Heinrich Glarean also styled Henricus Glareanus (born as Heinrich Loriti on 28 February or 3 June 1488 – 28 March 1563) was a Swiss music theorist, poet, humanist, philosopher and cartographer.
Hans Holbein £30 (but he did more work outside the court) [32] Levina Teerlinc £40 [33] Nicholas Hilliard received £400 as a gift in 1591, and an annuity of £40 from 1599; [34] he typically charged £3 for a non-royal miniature. The sums spent on metalwork, building palaces, and by Henry on tapestries, dwarfed these figures.
A copy of Holbein's Whitehall Mural. By far the most impressive models of portraiture available to English portraitists were the many portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger, the outstanding Northern portraitist of the first half of the 16th century, who had made two lengthy visits to England, and had been Henry VIII's court artist.