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Initially married to Catherine of Aragon ... portrait of Henry VIII was created by the workshop of German painter Hans Holbein the Younger, the son of acclaimed painter Hans Holbein the Elder.
Literary scholar Vanessa Braganza suggests that Catherine commissioned the pendant ... a volume of jewelry designs by Tudor court painter Hans Holbein. According to Braganza, the cipher contains ...
The cipher, she concluded, spelled out HENRICVS REX — Henry the King — and KATHERINE — his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Image Braganza decoded a cipher pendant by Hans Holbein that ...
Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Ambassadors ... King Henry VIII would divorce his first wife, Catherine, of Aragon, and marry Anne Boleyn. Catherine, who had strong ties to the Catholic ...
There’s a new old painter in town: Hans Holbein the Younger ... Clement VII’s refusal to annul his first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon. (It was never a smart move to exasperate Henry.) ...
This 1540 miniature by Hans Holbein may depict the Tudor king's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, not his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. Royal Collection Trust / © Her ...
One of the most famous examples of the technique is Hans Holbein the Younger's ... And with Henry VIII in the process of separating from Catherine of Aragon so he might marry Anne Boleyn ...
Thankfully Henry employed the German born Hans ... Holbein subject who was a victim of Henry's wrath was John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and a supporter of the king's first wife Katherine of Aragon.
It was featured by Henry VIII’s court painter Hans Holbein in his portrait ... book that was also owned by Henry VIII’s wives Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. The Frick Collection ...
Hans Holbein the Younger’s religious beliefs ... broke from the Catholic church to annul his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon after she failed to give him a son. It is possible that Holbein ...
Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne. As two new ...
Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne. As two new ...