Holbein: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library)
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Holbein: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library) Details
From the Back Cover Hans Holbein the Younger ( c.1497-1543) is renowned for his incisive portraits of Northern Europe's courtiers, thinkers and statesmen, but his output was far more various, and included book illustration, large religious paintings and designs for jewellery and curt fashions. This fine record of his career examines these varied aspects of his genius and beautifully illustrates the ways in which his miraculous technical accomplishment and attention to surface detail were married to acute observation to surface detail were married to acute observation of and empathy with his human subjects. Read more
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exellent prints of Holbein"s work. Just what I expected.
