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The King's Painter - The Life and Times of Hans Holbein (Paperback)
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The King's Painter - The Life and Times of Hans Holbein (Paperback)
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List price R381
Loot Price R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
You Save R69 (18%)
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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a
book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its
own right' The Times 'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly
as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and illustrated, this
book is a must for lovers of Tudor history' Tracy Borman Full of
insight... This is a gorgeous book, to which I am sure I shall
return again and again' Dan Jones Hans Holbein the Younger is
chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised
portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, Thomas
More, Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour and an array of
the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two
sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have
come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court,
Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius: a humanist,
satirist, political propagandist, and contributor to the history of
book design as well as a religious artist and court painter. The
rich layers of symbolism and allusion that characterise his work
have proved especially fascinating to scholars. Franny Moyle traces
and analyses the life and work of an extraordinary artist against
the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural
transformation, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly
refracting mirror.
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