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Hans Holbein

One of the greatest artists of the Renaissance Hans Holbein the Younger was also a complex and fascinating man who knew Erasmus Thomas More Henry VIII and many of the sixteenth centurys wielders of power and influence. He developed his own distinctive attitudes towards religion politics and social life as he moved among stalwart burghers merchant adventurers and the bejewelled denizens of a glittering court. The Elizabethan artist Nicolas Hilliard recognised him as the greatest Master in [portraiture] that ever was. Yet the range of Holbeins talent went far beyond painting likenesses. He was constantly in demand for trompe-loeil murals and intricate jewellery designs and he revolutionized book illustration. He produced Catholic altarpieces and Protestant propaganda engravings woodcuts and
drawings depicting the stories of the bible. In this fascinating biography acclaimed historian Derek Wilson gives a fresh account of Holbeins motives and paintings suggesting that they included coded signals and propaganda about political figures of the time. Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man" is a controversial reinterpretation which presents the artist as a man inextricably bound up in the stirring events of a creative and turbulent age."

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One of the greatest artists of the Renaissance Hans Holbein the Younger was also a complex & fascinating man who knew Erasmus Thomas More Henry VIII & many of the sixteenth centurys wielders of power & influence. He developed his own distinctive attitudes towards religion politics & social life as he moved among stalwart burghers merchant adventurers & the bejewelled denizens of a glittering court. The Elizabethan artist Nicolas Hilliard recognised him as the greatest Master in [portraiture] that ever was. Yet the range of Holbeins talent went far beyond painting likenesses. He was constantly in demand for trompe-loeil murals & intricate jewellery designs & he revolutionized book illustration. He produced Catholic altarpieces & Protestant propaganda engravings woodcuts & drawings depicting the stories of the bible. In this fascinating biography acclaimed historian Derek Wilson gives a fresh account of Holbeins motives & paintings suggesting that they included coded signals & propaganda about political figures of the time. Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man" is a controversial reinterpretation which presents the artist as a man inextricably bound up in the stirring events of a creative & turbulent age."

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