Description: Further DetailsTitle: HolbeinCondition: NewISBN-10: 383656372XEAN: 9783836563727ISBN: 9783836563727Publisher: Taschen GmbHFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/05/2017Description: Religion, Renaissance, and Reformation—these three ideologies shaped the world of 16th-century portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543), a pivotal figure of the Northern Renaissance, whose skills took him to Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, and England, and garnered patrons and subjects as prestigious as Henry VIII, Thomas More, Anne of Cleves, and Reformation advocate Thomas Cromwell. This book brings together key Holbein paintings to explore his illustrious and international career as well as the courtly drama and radical religious change that informed his work. With rich illustration, we survey the masterful draftsmanship and almost supernatural ability to control details, from the textures of luxurious clothing to the ornament of a room, that secured Holbein’s place as one of the greatest portraitists in Western art history.His probing eye was matched with a draftsman. Along the way, we see how he combined meticulous mimesis with an inspired amalgam of regional painterly traits, from Flemish-style realism to late medieval German composition and Italian formal grandeur.During his time in England, Holbein became official court painter to Henry VIII, producing both reformist propaganda and royalist paintings to bolster Henry’s status as monarch and as the new Supreme Head of the Church following the English Reformation. His portrait of Henry from 1537 is regarded not only as a portraiture pinnacle but also as an iconic record of this transformative monarch and the Tudor dynasty. Through this turbulent period, Holbein also produced anticlerical woodcuts, and sketched and painted Lutheran merchants, visiting ambassadors, and Henry’s notorious succession of wives.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: DEItem Height: 260mmItem Length: 210mmItem Weight: 589gAuthor: Norbert WolfGenre: Arts & PhotographyBook Series: Basic ArtRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Holbein
Title: Holbein
ISBN-10: 383656372X
EAN: 9783836563727
ISBN: 9783836563727
Release Date: 05/05/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Series: Basic Art
Book Title: Holbein
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Taschen
Topic: Individual Artists / General, Criticism & Theory, Individual Artists / Monographs, European, History / Renaissance
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 20.3 Oz
Author: Norbert Wolf
Item Length: 10.2 in
Item Width: 8.3 in
Format: Hardcover
