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    Holbein
    Holbein
    Holbein
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    Holbein

    By S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan and T. Leman Hare

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Holbein - S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Holbein, by Samuel Levy Bensusan

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      Title: Holbein

      Author: Samuel Levy Bensusan

      Editor: T. Leman Hare

      Release Date: August 7, 2013 [EBook #43410]

      Language: English

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      Internet Archive)

      MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY T. LEMAN HARE

      HOLBEIN

      PLATE I.—GEORGE GISZE. Frontispiece

      (In the Royal Museum, Berlin)

      This picture of a leading merchant of the Steelyard was painted in 1532, and constituted the artist's successful attempt to capture the patronage of one of the wealthiest merchant communities in the world. That the patronage was forthcoming quickly is suggested by the picture of another merchant of the Steelyard dated the same year, and now in the Windsor collection.

      HOLBEIN

      BY S. L. BENSUSAN

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      LONDON. T. C. & E. C. JACK

      NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      I

      INTRODUCTION

      Hans Holbein the younger is perhaps the most outstanding figure in the history of German art. In the eyes of some he may yield place to his great contemporary Albert Dürer, but it is impossible to deny that for all his indisputable genius Dürer stood for a time that was passing, and Holbein for one that was to come. The younger man touched art at every point, nowhere without mastery; and whether we consider him as a draughtsman, a decorator, a painter of frescoes, a portrait painter, an architect, a modeller, a designer of jewellery, a book illustrator, or a miniaturist, we find ourselves face to face with such an extraordinary measure of achievement, that the claim to remembrance and admiration could be sustained if his art gift had been single instead of universal.

      PLATE II.—THE AMBASSADORS

      (In the National Gallery, London)

      This picture, painted by Holbein when he was at the zenith of his powers, is well known to visitors to our National Gallery. The figures have been identified by some authorities as Jean de Dinteville and George de Selve, one was the French Ambassador to King Henry's Court, the other a great scholar who also served diplomacy. Both died young. The picture has roused controversy, as certain writers are of opinion that the subjects are Henry and Philip, Counts Palatine of the Rhine.

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