{"product_id":"the-kings-painter-the-life-and-times-of-hans-holbein","title":"The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein","description":"\u003cp\u003eA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A great  thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big  bombastic and richly brocaded ... A jewel in its own right The Times Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and illustrated  this book is a must for lovers of Tudor history Tracy Borman Full of insight ... This is a gorgeous book  to which I am sure I shall return again and again Dan Jones Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture  which includes representations of Henry VIII  Thomas More  Thomas Cromwell  Anne of Cleves  Jane Seymour and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images  which have come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court  Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius: a humanist  satirist  political propagandist  and contributor to the history of book design as well as a religious artist and court painter. The rich layers of symbolism and allusion that characterise his work have proved especially fascinating to scholars. Franny Moyle traces and analyses the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation  to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987021262901,"sku":"ByrdShop_1788541219","price":179.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781788541213.jpg?v=1770923024","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-kings-painter-the-life-and-times-of-hans-holbein","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}