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Topic: Hans Holbein

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Favorite quote(s):"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
 
 
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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner

También sobresalen algunos retratos, como el que le hizo Hans Holbein el Joven, cedido por el Metropolitan Museum of Art de Nueva York, y numerosos cuadros, tapices y tallas.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Hans Holbein’s woodcut images and texts from the Old Testament ² were published in various editions between 1538 and 1549, and it is possible that they had some distant influence on this painting - the Moses here faintly recalls some aspects of Holbein’s.
The importance of this particular masterwork of Hans Holbein as a form of commissioned art embedded with a transformed moral judgement can be served as a guideline for the endangered artist to survive in Hong Kong after 1997.
How does the example of Hans Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' and the often-exaggerated perspective of Carole's paintings relate to the idea of art as social commentary?
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

The Turkish essentials for interior decor, carpet covering the table in an anonymous picture, The Somerset purchase aubussons online, House Conference dated 1604, was so quality turkish rugs, popular with the painter Hans Holbein that this carpet design is to this day referred to by his name.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

At an early age he began to study painting with his father, Hans Holbein the Elder, a recognized artist in the Flemish tradition who was a skilled portraitist.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Others would say that it depends on how real to life the painting is -- for instance, Hans Holbein's extremely detailed and lifelike paintings of the costume of the Tudor court might be considered a better source for costuming than the cartoon-like picture of a person in the margins of a 12th century illuminated manuscript.
The number referred to is that given in the Phaidon catalogue of The Drawings of Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle and published by Phaidon in 1945.
Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker

Hans Holbein was born in Augsburg in Southern Germany.
Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

By the late 15th century the great artists of the time, Durer and Hans Holbein in Germany, Lucas von Leyden in the Netherlands, and Titian in Italy were using this new medium with great eloquence.
Among the notable Renaissance artists who made Publishing Industry News book illustrations were the Italian Andrea Mantegna and the Digital printing Germans Albrecht Dürer pira international , and Hans Holbein the Younger.
Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant

He also quotes historical techniques like f Piero della Francesca's stylizing, Hans Holbein's anamorphosis or the cubists' changing perspective.
 
 
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