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One of the greatest painters,
By The Listener "chaszz" (Carmel, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry VIII (Hardcover)
Holbein is not only a masterful portraitist, but one of the greatest spatial designers in the history of Western painting. His pictures crackle with the tense space that he places his sitters in, and with the superb swirling architecture he creates in uniting their heads, their elaborate costumes and their taut backgrounds. Henry VIII was one of the cruelest kings in history, presiding over the invention of innumerable new torture devices and liking to burn his hapless victims to death not all at once but slowly and agonizingly over a period of many hours. Nonetheless as a powerful, popular king and the founder of English Protestantism, his life is rich with history and the fascination he wields is undeniable.
It is a stroke of luck for us that one of the two supreme Western portrait painters (Rembrandt is the other) happened to work for and portray this outsized, obsessed personality and the hard-nosed nobles of his court.
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What's NOT to like about Holbein?,
By Tapestry (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry VIII (Hardcover)
Holbein brings early 16th century figures ALIVE. There's no such thing as a "ho hum Holbein". The man was a genius.
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Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry VIII by Stephanie Buck (Hardcover - Apr. 2004)
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