Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger was a German artist during the 16th century and is remembered as one of the best portrait artists during his time. He was born in 1497 in Augsburg into a family of famous artists, including his father, uncle, and older brother. Hans Holbein the Younger learned to paint from his famous artistic father, Hans Holbein the Elder. Hans Holbein the Younger painted over 150 portraits, as well as created woodcuts and designed clothing for royalty during his lifetime. In 1515, Holbein went to Basel, Switzerland and was commissioned to do pen illustrations in the margins of Erasmus’ book The Praise of Folly. Furthermore, in 1519 Holbein was admitted into the painters’ guild in Basel. During this time, he was commissioned for numerous works of art, including altarpieces and stained-glass windows. In addition, in this early part of his life he married Elsbeth Binzenstock, and officially became a citizen of Basel on July 3, 1519. When Holbein was 29 years old he stayed in England for two years and spent time with Thomas More. While in England, the artist painted portraits of More and his family, as well as More’s intellectual and humanist friend group. After his time in England, Holbein returned to Basel in 1528 and continued both municipal and religious work for a short time.…

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…

INITIAL REACTIONS TO THE WORK My first impression of Hans Holbein the Younger’s painting, The Ambassadors, is an amazing, captivating piece of art from the Renaissance period. I was immediately drawn to the man on the left with his powerful stance and wealthy appearance. It gave me the impression that he was a scholar and possibly royalty by his attire. The representation of the male on the right is a religious or clergy type person, I assumed this by his clothing of a dark cloak with…

VIII other than wait for the pregnant Anne Boleyn to marry and become queen of England, which brought about the English Reformation in following year. In the spring of 1533, when spirits were low, Dinteville’s friend Georges de Selve, a bishop and ambassador who had represented France to the Holy Roman Empire, came to visit him. Dinteville commissioned the German and Swiss painter Hans Holbein the Younger…

Artists used mathematical insight to create differing perspective. The Ambassadors is divided almost perfectly by the plumbline at the centre of the upper table and the globe on the lower table - the exact geometrical centre of the image is Rome (Quaesitor, 2009). There was one very specific way that Holbein used mathematical principles in this painting and is one of the reasons it is so famous. He used anamorphosis which is a distorted projection or drawing that appears normal when viewed…

It saw humans as independent, rational thinkers (Buck, 11) and criticized the clergy for being corrupt. Henry VIII was interested in humanism and, according to author J. Christopher Warner, he marketed himself as a philosopher-king. He was an exemplary of the Renaissance Prince: he enjoyed arts, sports, and religion (Head, 94). Holbein was surrounded by humanist influence, as well. He spent a portion of his lifetime in Basel, Switzerland, a center of humanism, where he became close with Erasmus,…

preferred bell-shaped components (“Dress”). 2. A common decoration for most countries, though, was a thin band of material called a ruff collar that was placed around the neck (“Stubbes on Ruffs”). IV. In addition to clothing, jewelry was also an accessory used to exhibit the interests of its owners. A. The “artistic value [of jewelry] was far greater than the intrinsic value of their materials” therefore creating the common belief that the possession of imaginative and original jewelry meant…

Phillip Toledano, a New York based full time experimental artist and photographer of a series of photographs called “A New Kind of Beauty”, brings awareness towards society’s modern standards of beauty through documenting and creating classical portraits of individuals who have had several procedures of reconstructive plastic surgery done on their faces as well as their bodies in desperate search of a flawless body. Toledano’s “A New Kind of Beauty” was inspired by Hans, the Younger Holbein.…

throughout Italy and flowed into France, Spain, and other parts of Northern Europe. Venetian artists such as Giorgione (1477-1510) and Titian (1488/90-1576) further developed and popularized a technique of painting with oil directly on a canvas. This permitted the artist to redo an image–as fresco painting (on plaster) did not. This style would later dominate Western art to the modern day. However, oil painting during the Renaissance went back even further to the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck who…

was thought to be what Henry was attracted to the most. Henry’s dream of having a male heir finally came true after Jane gave birth to Edward I in 1537. Due to complications from childbirth, Jane died nine days later of puerperal fever. The only spouse to be buried in the same tomb as King Henry VIII was Jane Seymour (Biography.com Editors). The term “catfished” is accurate when explaining the marriage between Anne of Cleves and King Henry VIII. Henry had first seen Anne of Cleves in a painting…