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. About the series Born back in 1985,
the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book
collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series
features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre
of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical
importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with
explanatory captions
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