We trust that political art is always bad art, but Hans Holbein the Younger, one of the first masters of the modern character study, was a political artist to the tip of his brush. He was also, as ...

He might technically be “the younger,” but he still died 500 years ago. He’s also responsible for the best painting show in New York right now. I’m speaking, of course, of Hans Holbein the Younger, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hans Holbein’s portraits of a barrel-chested Henry VIII define how we think about the insatiable Tudor tyrant and his court - Fine ...

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 ...

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker best known for his detailed and realistic portraits—indeed, he is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th ...

Ambitious and versatile, Holbein brought his Northern Renaissance skill to the English monarchy, as made evident in this sumptuous visual tour of the court of Henry VIII. The opulent portraits are ...

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 ...

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 ...

On February 7, 1497, the citizens of Florence witnessed, and participated in, an abominable event that was, ever after, regretted. At the instigation of the firebrand monk Savonarola, a huge mound of ...