Hans Holbein
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Hans Holbein Details
Review "Hans Holbein is a stimulating book with many new insights and suggestions."---Willibald Sauerländer, The New York Review"Like only a few other painters in history, Holbein made the human likeness seem to erase the distance between his time and ours.... This readable scholarly book not only situates Holbein carefully in his own time but teaches us how to read his paintings and prints in depth."---Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Read more About the Author Oskar Bätschmann is Professor of Art History at the University of Bern. He is the author of Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting. Pascal Griener is Professor of History at the Institute of Art History, Neuchâtel. Read more
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Ryan, Ryan, Ryan...you are the worst reviewer ever: as of today's date, with an amazing "0 of 75 helpful votes" on your only review, you are #22,437,147 in reviewer ranking. Aside from that weirdness, it's surprising that there is only one other reviewer here, especially because if you plug in "Holbein" in the category of books, this is the fist book among HUNDREDS listed.Anyway, I really like this book! I have many books about Hans Holbein the Younger because I'm a student of Tudor history and also of needlework and the history of needlework. Holbein is the best source of detail of the embroidery and oriental carpets so captivating to the Tudors, particularly during Henry VIII's and Elizabeth I's reigns. In fact, he's so detailed in showing the requisite blackwork (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Spanish work as if solely imported by Catherine of Aragon) that appeared on the fanciest of sleeves, cuffs and bodices in many of his paintings that the the stitch is nicknamed for him: the Holbein stitch which is also known as double running stitch.This is a fine book, regardless the grade our poor Ryan got on his paper. In fact, of my many books on Holbein, this is one of the more scholarly being produced by Princeton and prolific authors, Oskar Bätschmann and Pascal Griener, being professors of art at universities in Switzerland. On the other hand, just in January of this year, this book has been expanded and revised by the authors:Hans Holbein: Revised and Expanded Second EditionBolstered to 352 pages from 256 and with many more of the paintings in color, you should hold out for that book, I guess. I know I'll be ordering it.All in all, this is a worthy book, especially since it can be had for less than $6 plus shipping. The insights of these authors are fresh and put a bit of a different spin on some of the usual conclusions about this painter.
