Anders / Art Resource, NYĬo-organized with the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, where it will travel in February, the exhibition features 33 paintings and drawings by Holbein from the Getty’s collection and institutions around the globe. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Image: bpk Bildagentur / Photo: Jörg P. Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of a Member of the Wedigh Family, 1533 As Jason Farago reports for the New York Times, “ Hans Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance” marks the first major solo show dedicated to the painter in the United States.
Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles through January 9, 2022. Holbein took great pains to decorate his subjects and their surroundings with clues to their identities: Fine silk clothes, gems, books, furry creatures and gilded inscriptions all hint at the family ties, class, occupations and ambitions of his sitters.Īmerican museumgoers can now decode the desires of the Tudor elite themselves by taking a close look at Holbein’s portraits, on view at the J. German artist Hans Holbein the Younger created his most famous portraits while working as a court painter for Henry VIII in 16th-century England. Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Simon George of Cornwall (detail), circa 1535–40
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