The King's Painter The Life and Times of Hans Holbein /anglais

By: MOYLE FRANNY;

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Art - Craft - Hobbies - Music, Autobiography - Biography, History,

ISBN: 9781788541220

SKU: BE501617933655

Pages: 400

Description: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 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 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.