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The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, sometimes referred to as Dead Christ, is an oil and tempera on limewood painting created by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger between 1520 and 1522. It shows a life-size, grotesque depiction of the stretched and unnaturally thin body of Jesus Christ lying in his tomb. Holbein ...
Hans Holbein the Younger (UK: / ˈ h ɒ l b aɪ n / HOL-byne, [2] US: / ˈ h oʊ l b aɪ n, ˈ h ɔː l-/ HOHL-byne, HAWL-; [3] [4] [5] German: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; c. 1497 [6] – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. [7]
Portrait of Christina of Denmark (or Portrait in Mourning) is an oil on oak panel painting by Hans Holbein the Younger completed in 1538. [1] It was commissioned that year by Thomas Cromwell, agent for Henry VIII, as a betrothal painting following the death of the English Queen Jane Seymour.
Self-portrait, c. 1542–43.Coloured chalks and pen, heightened with gold, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. This list of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger contains a selection of the artist's best-known paintings, as well as a few copies and derivatives of his art, some of which relate to lost works.
Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh is an oil and tempera on oak painting completed in 1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.It depicts a member of the Wedigh family of Cologne thought to be a merchant of the Steelyard in London.
[5] [22] Heinrich's younger brother, Berend, who reached the age of 24 only on 21 September in 1543, shortly before Holbein's death and during an outbreak of plague, is unlikely to be the sitter. [23] [24] [25] In 1543 there was a "great death" in London, which lasted so far into the winter that the Michaelmas law term had to be kept at St. Albans.
Hans Holbein the Younger: An unidentified man ( ) Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/1498–1543) Alternative names: ... Date of birth/death: 1497 or 1498
The Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell is a painting by the German Renaissance master Hans Holbein the Younger, executed around 1536–1537. It is housed in the Uffizi, Florence. The painting was required by Grand Duke Cosimo II de' Medici in 1620 to Thomas Howard, Duke of Arundel, to fill a gap in the family collections. It arrived in Florence ...