The king's painter, the life and times of Hans Holbein, Franny Moyle
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The king's painter, the life and times of Hans Holbein, Franny Moyle
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The king's painter
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Franny Moyle
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the life and times of Hans Holbein
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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. "A biography entirely suited to its subject...It is big, bombastic, and richly brocaded...A triumph." "[An] intricate and enlightening study of Holbein and his age." "Outstanding....[an] impressive and meticulous portrait of Holbein." "One of the great strengths of Moyle's book is it allows you to view Holbein's enormous versatility...[and] the overwhelming sophistication of Holbein's gift for verisimilitude." "In Moyle's intriguing account, Holbein...is a canny pragmatist and a master of ambiguities. Alert to both possibilities and dangers, he negotiates...the traps of politics with impeccable skill. As an artist, his detailed observation and brilliant technique are combined with a shrewd sense of what his patrons want...[while] his own judgments can nonetheless be read in the subtleties of his drawings and paintings." "Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written." "Full of insight."
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