Works acquired by Rotterdam’s new Fenix museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and a small Greek island ...

Hans Holbein the Younger’s religious beliefs are a subject ... In 1523, Holbein and a famous humanist, Erasmus of Rotterdam, both lived in Basel. They became close friends after Erasmus ...

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry ... including the Dutch philosopher and theologian Desiderius Erasmus – who he painted exactly 500 years ago − before travelling to ...

Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Simon George of Cornwall ... Holbein’s big break came in the form of Desiderius Erasmus, a philosopher whose witty treatises made him “Europe’s first ...

There’s a new old painter in town: Hans Holbein the Younger, the dazzling Renaissance ... with Christian humanists in the circle of Erasmus of Rotterdam, the illegitimate son of a priest and ...

Hans Holbein the Younger had quit the town to seek richer ... largely because of the presence of the great Dutch scholar Erasmus, was soon to call itself “the city of humanists.” ...

The year 1540 was also when arguably the most famous portrait of Henry VIII was created by the workshop of German painter Hans Holbein the Younger ... Dutch philosopher Erasmus to Sir Thomas ...

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 ...

Hans Holbein the Younger’s Madonna of the mayor Jacob ... in Holbein’s portrait of Erasmus (1523, Longford Castle Collection, on permanent loan to the National Gallery, London) the influence ...

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 ...

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry ... including the Dutch philosopher and theologian Desiderius Erasmus – who he painted exactly 500 years ago − before travelling to ...