{"product_id":"hans-holbein-9780691017433","title":"Hans Holbein","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans Holbein the Younger (1497\/8-1543)  one of the most versatile and admired painters of the Northern Renaissance  trained under his father in Augsburg and then worked for leading patrons in Switzerland before settling in England as Court Painter to Henry VIII. To commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the artists birth  Oskar Btschmann and Pascal Griener offer this richly illustrated book--the first comprehensive monograph on the artist to appear in more than forty years--which is a major advance in our understanding of Holbeins contribution to European art. The authors reexamine every aspect of a remarkable career  and further illuminate the artistic and cultural influences that affected the artist.  Holbein was a hugely ambitious artist  and even during his formative years in Lucerne and Basel  made designs for jewelry  stained glass  and woodcuts  and painted major altarpieces and portraits. He also carried out several monumental decorative schemes for private houses and civic buildings. In his commissions  Holbein sought to rival the greatest masters of Germany and Italy  most notably Drer and Mantegna  and by the time of his visit to France in 1524 he was determined to secure a position as Court Painter. However  Holbein soon found himself in a precarious situation as a result of the Reformations increasing hostility toward religious works  and he left for England in 1532. While in England  in addition to decorative schemes and Triumphs  he both drew and painted numerous unrivaled likenesses of leading courtiers  merchants  and diplomats  among which is his celebrated double portrait  The Ambassadors. This book offers both a remarkable range of extant visual evidence and a rewarding and scholarly account of Holbeins oeuvre in its full historical and artistic contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280091504693,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691017433","price":114.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691017433.jpg?v=1780620392","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hans-holbein-9780691017433","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}