Holbein the Younger: 190 Plates
()
About this ebook
Holbein acted not only as a portraitist but also as a fashion designer for the court. The artist made designs for all the state robes of the king; he left, in addition, more than 250 delicate drawings for everything from buttons and buckles to pageant weapons, horse out-fittings, and book-bindings for the royal household. This choice of work indicates Holbein's Mannerist concentration on surface texture and detail of design, a concern that in some ways precluded the incorporation of great psychological depth in his portraits.
Read more from Maria Peitcheva
Michelangelo: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5John Sargent: 260 Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Klimt: Drawings 126 Colour Plates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hokusai Drawings: Colour Plates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prud'hon: Drawings 85 Colour Plates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Piranesi: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leonardo da Vinci Drawings: Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Zorn: Drawings 131 Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Egon Schiele: 195 Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Repin: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Raphael: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rembrandt Drawings:Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelacroix: Drawings 145 Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5J. M. W. Turner Drawings: Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5John Waterhouse: 175 Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnders Zorn: 300 Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Paul Cezanne: 235 Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Adolph Menzel: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5John W. Waterhouse: Drawings 98 Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Egon Schiele: Drawings 115 Colour Plates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Winslow Homer: 216 Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ingres: Drawings 150 Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5William Blake Drawings: Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Van Gogh Drawings:Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Modigliani: Drawings 102 Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Paul Cezanne: Drawings 126 Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEdgar Degas Drawings: Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTorii Kiyonaga: Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVan Gogh: 225 Colour Plates Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rubens: Drawings 140 Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Holbein the Younger
Related ebooks
Holbein the Younger: Drawings 94 Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHolbein Portrait Drawings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHolbein the Younger: 100 Master's Drawings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Peter Lely: 55 Drawings & Studies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHans Holbein the Younger: Paintings and Drawings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Joshua Reynolds: 55 Drawings & Studies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHolbein Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCharles Le Brun: 215 Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHolbein the Younger: His Palette Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGuido Reni: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHolbein the Younger: Portrait Drawings & Paintings (Annotated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGainsborough: 295 Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdolph Menzel: 185 Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJakob Jordaens: 112 Master Drawings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEugene Delacroix: 280 Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ingres: 255 Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeorge Romney: 215 Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGuido Reni: Master Drawings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gainsborough:Master Drawings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJames Whistler: His Palette Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJacques Louis David: 135 Master Drawings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLovis Corinth: 105 Paintings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHans Holbein the younger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRubens: 280 Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry Fuseli: Drawings 136 Colour Plates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5David: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5August Macke: Paintings and Drawings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCranach: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAugust Macke: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDurer: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Art For You
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Creative, Inc.: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art 101: From Vincent van Gogh to Andy Warhol, Key People, Ideas, and Moments in the History of Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And The Mountains Echoed Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Designer's Dictionary of Color Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Botanical Drawing: A Step-By-Step Guide to Drawing Flowers, Vegetables, Fruit and Other Plant Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Draw and Paint Anatomy, All New 2nd Edition: Creating Lifelike Humans and Realistic Animals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art Models 10: Photos for Figure Drawing, Painting, and Sculpting Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Lioness of Boston: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Electric State Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Morpho: Anatomy for Artists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The World Needs Your Art: Casual Magic to Unlock Your Creativity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related categories
Reviews for Holbein the Younger
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Holbein the Younger - Maria Peitcheva
Holbein the Younger: 190 Plates
By Maria Peitcheva
First Edition
*****
Holbein the Younger: 190 Plates
*****
Copyright © 2016 Maria Peitcheva
Foreword
Hans Holbein the Younger was German painter, draftsman, and designer renowned for the precise rendering of his drawings and the compelling realism of his portraits. Holbein was one of the greatest portraitists and most exquisite draftsmen of all time. It is the artist's record of the court of King Henry VIII of England, as well as the taste that he virtually imposed upon that court, that was his most remarkable achievement.
Holbein was a member of a family of important artists. His father, Hans Holbein the Elder, and his uncle Sigmund were renowned for their somewhat conservative examples of late Gothic painting in Germany. One of Holbein's brothers, Ambrosius, became a painter as well, but he apparently died about 1519 before reaching maturity as an artist. The Holbein brothers no doubt first studied with their father in Augsburg; they both also began independent work about 1515 in Basle, Switzerland. It should be noted that this chronology places Holbein firmly in the second generation of 16th-century German artists. Albrecht Durer, Matthias Grunewald, and Lucas Cranach the Elder all were born between 1470 and 1480 and were producing their mature masterpieces by the time Holbein was just beginning his career.
Holbein was associated early on with the Basle publishers and their humanist circle of acquaintances. In Basle, Holbein was also active in designing woodcuts for title pages and book illustrations. He increased his reputation as a book illustrator by a series of woodcuts for the German translation of the Bible by Martin Luther. The artist's most famous work in this area, a series of 41 scenes illustrating the medieval allegorical concept of the Dance of Death, was designed by him and cut by another artist as early as about 1523 to 1526 but was not published until 1538. Its scenes display an immaculate sense of order, packing much information about the lifestyles and habits of Death's victims into a very small format. He completed also a series of pen-and-ink sketches for The Praise of Folie by the Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus.
Holbein left Basle late in 1526, to travel by way of the Netherlands to England. Only about 28 years old he would achieve remarkable success in England. His most impressive