Hans Holbein the younger was an extremely dominant figure in German renaissance art and was considered the very best of portrait artists. Hans Holbein aided in evolving German art from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. Holbein worked in many artistic mediums like portraits and more abstract ones like jewelry and metal work. On the more painting orientated side of things, he was also brilliant at religious history oriented paintings, altarpieces, miniature portraits, illustrations and printmaking. He had a very strong hold on creating three dimensional form and space with realistic detail. Moving onto his most prominent medium portraits, his styled was centered around objective precis on where he reflected his subjects’ inner emotions and
