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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 (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 ...
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]
Historian David Starkey has said "arguably this is the most important portrait in England. It is where portraiture actually begins." [5] Holbein painted three much-copied portraits of Erasmus in 1523, of which this is the largest and most elaborate. It is likely the one sent to William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, in England. Holbein later ...
Copy in oils of the Whitehall Mural, commissioned by Charles II, 1667. Portrait of Henry VIII is a lost painting by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting Henry VIII.It is one of the most iconic images of Henry VIII and is one of the most famous portraits of any English or British monarch.
Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1460–1524), German painter Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497–1543), German-Swiss artist and printmaker, considerably more famous than his father Topics referred to by the same term
Hans Holbein's witty marginal drawing of Folly (1515), in a copy owned by Erasmus himself. The Praise of Folly begins with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, in the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian (2nd century AD), whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin; Folly swipes at every part of society, from lovers to princes to inventors ...