Format:
xii, 380 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781419749537
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1419749536
Content:
From a distinguished art historian, a dramatic reappraisal of Renaissance master Hans Holbein, whose art shaped politics and immortalized the Tudors. Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realized portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, his advisors Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, his wives Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the age, Holbein was a multifaceted genius: a humanist, satirist, and political propagandist, and a deft man whose work was rich in layers of symbolism and allusion. In The King's Painter, biographer Franny Moyle traces and analyzes 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. It is a work of serious scholarship written for a wide audience
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781647005214
Language:
English
Keywords:
Holbein, Hans 1497-1543
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Holbein, Hans 1497-1543
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Heinrich VIII. England, König 1491-1547
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Höfische Kunst
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Bildnismalerei
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Biografie
Author information:
Holbein, Hans 1497-1543
