... according to E. Zinner , made by Nuremberg mathematician Johann Schöner . Recalls that Holbein was advised on scientific instruments by Henry VIII's court astronomer Nicolaus Kratzer , who lectured at Oxford on sundials , globes and ...
An English lawyer, scholar, statesman, and saint (canonized in 1935), Thomas More (1478–1535; cat. ... served Henry VIII in various diplomatic and administrative positions, including chief minister and lord chancellor (1515).
Hans Holbein, 1497/98-1543
Forty-four of Holbein's finest portrait drawings, created while he worked as court painter to Henry VIII, including Sir Thomas More, Jane Seymour, the Prince of Wales, Anne Boleyn, and dozens more.
Discusses the life and work of Hans Holbein the Younger, the artist most responsible for preserving in his portraits the court of King Henry VIII.
Holbein's work exhibits both the highest standards of craftsmanship achieved during the northern Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and an uncommon ability to translate his perception of his sitters...
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) is one of the greatest portrait painters of the 16th century.
Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein molded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and culture: the emergence of humanism, the impact of the Reformation on religious life, and the ...
Generously illustrated and based on the most up-to-date research, the book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Holbein the Younger and his magnificent art.
In the Adventures of Captain Horn the machinery which conceals and guards the Peruvian treasure is so elaborately ... After all, when one comes to think of it, Mrs. Lecks and Captain Horn merely illustrate that ready adaptation of ...