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 ...

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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 ...

The unprecedented exhibition of Renaissance portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger at the J ... Then there was Erasmus, the great Dutch humanist philosopher with whom Tudor England was obsessed.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...