#hans holbein the younger
![The Ambassadors [1533]- Featuring an anamorphic skull in foreground of painting. Fantastic 16th cent](https://64.media.tumblr.com/419d7596b9611b1d6776951b4365c008/f566370abaaac4d3-8c/s1280x1920/b58d3f8e27919fd3d318ccfa21ded107ffa5f002.jpg "The Ambassadors [1533]- Featuring an anamorphic skull in foreground of painting. Fantastic 16th cent")
The Ambassadors[1533]
- Featuring an anamorphic skull in foreground of painting. Fantastic 16th century work in perspective.
Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger
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ca. 1416 statue of Jeannede Boulogne, Duchess of Berry (c.1378-c.1424), by Jean de Cambrai (d.1438), currently situated in the Bourges Cathedral
source1,source2(bylouis.foecy.fr on Flickr)
source3(by Philippe_28 (maintenant sur ipernity) on flickr)
1523-4 drawing of the same by Hans Holbein the Younger
source (wikimedia commons)
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It’s not often you hear a gent in his 70’s loudly declare “Hipster!” in a tone of joy.
See what he was reacting to here: http://www.attendantsview.com/cartoons-and-blog/plus-ca-change-plus-cest-la-meme-chose
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Portrait of a Lady, called Anne Boleyn by Hans Holbein the Younger
The association of this drawing with Anne Boleyn goes back to Wenceslas Hollar’s etching after it in 1649. The inscription on the print reads ANNA BULLEN REGINA ANGLIÆ|HENRICI VIIIui Vxor 2da Elizabeth Regine|Mater, fuit decollata, Londini 19 May 1536 (Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, 2nd wife of Henry VIII, mother of Queen Elizabeth, was beheaded in London on 19 May 1536). It is not known whether the inscription on the etching was taken from the drawing or vice versa. The inscription on the drawing (left of neck) dates from the 17th century and reads Anna Bullen de collata|Fuit Londini 19 May 1536.The identification may have been based on a superficial similarity with some of the late-Elizabethan hack images of Anne. Anne’s biographer Eric Ives believes that neither this nor Holbein’s drawing in the Royal Collection of a different woman inscribed “Anna Bollein Queen” are of Anne. No certain contemporary likeness of Anne is known, other than a damaged lead portrait medal.
Dance of Death: The Bride(1651 / Etching) - Wenceslaus Hollar
After Hans Holbein the Younger
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ab. 1535-1540 Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait of a Lady, probably a Member of the Cromwell Family
(Toledo Museum of Art)
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Hans Holbein, Sir Thomas Elyot, 1532-33, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.
HANS HOLBEIN the Younger returned to England in 1532 to work at the court of Henry VIII, where he was appointed painter to the king in 1536. In this capacity, he produced portraits of members of the royal family and eminent courtiers. His preparatory drawings often attain an even higher level of verisimilitude than the finished paintings.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT was a diplomat, clerk to the Privy Council, the sheriff of four counties and MP from the borough of Cambridge. A friend of Sir Thomas More, Elyot was also a humanist scholar, counting among his works the first comprehensive Latin dictionary, The Boke, called the Governour (a 16th-century best-seller), The Castel of Helth and translations of Plutarch and Pico della Mirandola. He sat for Holbein’s portrait around the age of 44.
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