The Morgan Library’s new exhibition, Holbein: Capturing Character, is a survey of the work of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543). Holbein was Henry VIII’s court painter, the best ...
Exciting news that Yale University Press will be publishing a new in-depth biography on Hans Holbein the Younger in November 2025. The volume has been produced by Elizabeth Goldring, who has published ...
Matthew Holbein and Emily Brooks founded The Foliage Library in 2014. Their goal is to promote environmental and botanical education through illustrated geometric folding books with forms that relate ...
In some respects, it delivers in spades. The exhibition opens with a contemporary copy of Holbein's portrait of Henry, a painting that came to "represent power itself" – indeed, as the wall ...
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger is one of those paintings that we know so well we tend to forget to look closer.
The same is true of drawings by other big name artists, such as Holbein’s Portrait of a Youth in a Broad-brimmed Hat (c.1525), in which the artist applies coloured chalks and watercolour to add ...