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Hurrah for Hans Holbein and Henry VII & VIII !!!
Tate Britain has assembled a glorious array of portraits by the astonishingly gifted artist Hans Holbein the Younger:
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He lost his head:
Tate Britain has assembled a glorious array of portraits by the astonishingly gifted artist Hans Holbein the Younger:
Hans Holbein (1497/8–1543) was the first great British artist, and is regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. He moved to England from Basel in 1526–8 and then again in 1532–43, an extremely turbulent time in English history when all around were losing their heads. His arrival effectively brought the Renaissance in painting from continental Europe to Britain. This major exhibition, which includes numerous remarkable loans from around the world, concentrates on the work Holbein produced in England under the patronage of the Tudor court and for King Henry VIII. Through an outstanding collection of paintings brought together from around the world, this exhibition documents the thrill of the court and life in Tudor England, reflecting the unsettled history and politics of the time.
This is the largest and most important collection of Holbein’s work to be seen in Britain in over fifty years and shows the range of his extraordinary skill and accomplishment as an artist, as well as his impact on English cultural life. Part of the exhibition looks at the reign of Henry VIII and reunites for the first time in centuries the outstanding portraits of Henry VIII from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid with the portrait of his third wife Jane Seymour, from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and their son Edward, Prince of Wales, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Bringing together forty portrait and subject paintings as well as portrait drawings, decorative designs and prints, Holbein in England not only demonstrates the range of Holbein’s extraordinary skill and accomplishment as an artist, but will also reassess the impact of his presence on English cultural life in the reign of Henry VIII.
This is the largest and most important collection of Holbein’s work to be seen in Britain in over fifty years and shows the range of his extraordinary skill and accomplishment as an artist, as well as his impact on English cultural life. Part of the exhibition looks at the reign of Henry VIII and reunites for the first time in centuries the outstanding portraits of Henry VIII from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid with the portrait of his third wife Jane Seymour, from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and their son Edward, Prince of Wales, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Bringing together forty portrait and subject paintings as well as portrait drawings, decorative designs and prints, Holbein in England not only demonstrates the range of Holbein’s extraordinary skill and accomplishment as an artist, but will also reassess the impact of his presence on English cultural life in the reign of Henry VIII.
Get your tickets now while they're fresh...
He lost his head:
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