Research Catalog

Title

Hans Holbein / Oskar Bätschmann and Pascal Griener ; [translation by Cecilia Hurley and Pascal Griener].

Author

Bätschmann, Oskar, 1943-

Publication

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Griener, Pascal.

Description

255 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Holbein was a hugely ambitious artist, and even during his formative years in Lucerne and Basle undertook to make designs for jewelry, stained glass and woodcuts as well as to paint major altarpieces and portraits. He also carried out several monumental decorative schemes for private houses and civic buildings. This book offers both a remarkable range of extant visual evidence and a rewarding and scholarly account of Holbein's oeuvre in its full historical and artistic contexts. In addition, the authors include a reappraisal of the high reputation in which Holbein was held during the centuries following his death, as illustrated by the opinion expressed by the Elizabethan miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard and the searches undertaken by the French collector Charles Patin, and by the remarks and exertions of the wealthy eighteenth-century dilettante Horace Walpole.

Subjects

• Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
• Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "Originally published in Great Britain by Reaktion Books Ltd"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-249) and index.

Contents

Artistic competition and self-definition -- Figure and movement, invention and narration -- Monumental decorative works -- Religious works: the making of Erasmian art -- Italian and Northern art -- The Portrait, Time and Death -- Holbein's fame.

ISBN

• 0691017433
• 9780691017433
• 0691005168
• 9780691005164

LCCN

97065592

OCLC

• ocm37421221
• 37421221
• SCSB-365417

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library