Bell's miniature series of painters

Hans Holbein

VELAZQUEZ. By G. C. Williamson, Litt.D. SIR E. BURNE-JONES. By Malcolm Bell. FRA ANGELICO. By G. C. Williamson, Litt.D. G. F. WATTS, R.A. By C. T. Bateman. WATTEAU. By Edgcumbe Staley, B.A. GEORGE ROMNEY. By Rowley Cleeve. HOLMAN HUNT. By G. C. Williamson, Litt.D. HOLBEIN. By Arthur B. Chamberlain. REYNOLDS. By Rowley Cleeve. LEIGHTON. By G. C. Williamson, Litt.D. SIR L. ALMA-TADEMA. By H. Zimmern. GAINSBOROUGH. By Mrs. A. G. Bell. J. F. MILLET. By Arthur Tomson. SIR J. E. MILLAIS, P.R.A. By A. Lys Baldry. HANS HOLBEIN was born, in 1497, at Augsburg, in Swabia, Southern Germany, to which town his grandfather, Michael Holbein, had moved, some time before 1454, from the neighbouring village of Schnenfeld. His father, known to-day as Holbein the elder, to distinguish him from his more celebrated son, was one of the leading painters of Augsburg, and an artist of importance in the history of German art. The elder Holbein was one of the first of German painters strongly influenced by the Italian Renaissance, and a chronological study of his pictures shows very clearly how great a change was gradually taking place north of the Alps both in artistic ideals and technical methods, through an increasing knowledge of what the great painters of the Southern peninsula had accomplished. In his early work he shows himself to be a follower of Rogier van der Weyden and his school, but towards the end of the first decade of the sixteenth century the Gothic qualities of his painting, with its many hardnesses and angularities, begin to disappear, and a closer observation and a more truthful rendering of{2} nature to take their place. He threw off one by one his Rhenish traditions, and replaced them by the methods of the Van Eycks, which reached him indirectly through the mellowing influence of the earlier Venetian painters. He developed, too, a fondness for rich architectural decoration of the Renaissance type for the backgrounds and settings of his pictures, in the use of which his son, later on, became so perfect a master. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 58400
Author: Chamberlain, Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley)
Release Date: Dec 2, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543