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Imagine coming face to face with the extraordinary people who filled the court of King Henry VIII. Well we can! Thanks to the extraordinary work of the artist hans Holbein the Younger. Professor ...

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In early meetings, the clients shared photos of lush 16th-century paintings, including “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch and “The Ambassadors” by Hans Holbein the ...

Hans Holbein the Younger’s famous “Portrait of Henry VIII” is on loan to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica in Italy.

Her team’s main reference source was portraiture from the Tudor era (particularly by Hans Holbein, the court painter), and they also looked to sumptuary law, which dictated who could wear which ...

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Flanking a fireplace on the first floor are two portraits by Hans Holbein. One depicts Thomas More — the author of “Utopia” and the lord high chancellor of England under King Henry VIII — who was ...

And that is Hans Holbein and his court paintings. … Holbein did primarily paint the court, because portraiture was incredibly expensive to have done.