People pay good money for the kind of cheek surgery Hans Holbein performed his 1533 portrait of merchant Derich Born. Conservation work has revealed a jaw-slimming procedure done over the course of ...

Hans Holbein the Younger — the subject of an online exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City — was a painter with a mission. As the court painter to King Henry VIII of England in the ...

In his blend of late gothic and early humanism, religious subjects and secular biography, Holbein caught history on his canvases. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki ...

Born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1497/98, Hans Holbein the Younger—the Northern Renaissance painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic artist and designer—first moved from Basel, Switzerland, to England ...

The unprecedented exhibition of Renaissance portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger at the J. Paul Getty Museum opens with a bang. His staggeringly beautiful painting of a young woman, wife of a London ...

With Holbein the drawing and the painting are practically interchangeable if we are pursuing the secret of his art; but, with most men, work with the pencil or chalk has meant a more spontaneous ...

When we visualise the court of Henry VIII, it is probably a picture by Hans Holbein that springs to mind, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. His "unforgettable" portraits of figures ...

LEFT: “A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling,” about 1526-1528, Hans Holbein the Younger, oil on panel. RIGHT: “A Member of the Wedigh Family,” 1533, Hans Holbein the Younger, oil on panel. (LEFT: The ...