Publication

2014-01-15 - Reaktion Books

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101780231717
  • ISBN-139781780231716
  • OCLC Control Number856198787
  • Better World Books9781780231716
  • Open LibraryOL27565649M

Classifications

  • LCCND588.H7B32 2013
  • LCCND588.H7 B32 2014

Description

Holbein was a hugely ambitious artist, and even during his formative years in Lucerne and Basle undertook to make designs for jewelry, stained glass and woodcuts as well as to paint major altarpieces and portraits. He also carried out several monumental decorative schemes for private houses and civic buildings. This book offers both a remarkable range of extant visual evidence and a rewarding and scholarly account of Holbein's oeuvre in its full historical and artistic contexts. In addition, the authors include a reappraisal of the high reputation in which Holbein was held during the centuries following his death, as illustrated by the opinion expressed by the Elizabethan miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard and the searches undertaken by the French collector Charles Patin, and by the remarks and exertions of the wealthy eighteenth-century dilettante Horace Walpole.

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Other Editions

  • Hans Holbein: Revised and Expanded Second EditionPaperbackReaktion Books2014-01-15

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