Hans Holbein

Artist in a Changing World

Hans Holbein
Jeanne Nuechterlein
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Hardback
h216 x 138mm - 288pg
1 Jun 2020 UK
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9781789142112
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Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein moulded his approach to artmaking during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and culture: the emergence of humanism, the impact of the Reformation on religious life and the effects of new scientific discoveries. Most people have encountered Holbein' s work - Henry VIII was forever defined for posterity by his memorable portrait - but little is widely known about the artist himself. This overview of Holbein looks at his art through the changes in the world around him. Offering insightful and often surprising new interpretations of visual and historical sources that have rarely been addressed, Jeanne Nuechterlein reconstructs what we know of the life of this elusive figure, illuminating the complexity of hisworld and the images he generated.

Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
Botticelli: Artist and Designer
Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy
Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art
Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar
Filippino Lippi: An Abundance of Invention
Giorgione's Ambiguity
Hans Holbein: Artist in a Changing World
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy - (not currently available)
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion
Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon's Eye
Leonardo da Vinci: Self Art and Nature
Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer - (not currently available)
Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature
Raphael and the Antique
Rembrandt's Holland - (not currently available)
Rubens's Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance
Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing
Titian's Touch: Art, Magic and Philosophy - (not currently available)
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens

"Nuechterlein presents the first modern overview of Holbein' s entire achievement and examines his responses to major changes in contemporary belief systems--Renaissance humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and new scientific and geographical discoveries--all explained with admirable clarity. Analyzing Holbein' s work across Germany, Switzerland, and England, from tiny woodcuts and metalcuts to full-size altarpieces, she brilliantly brings into focus not only Holbein' s extraordinary creative responses to change but also the people for whom and with whom he worked, illuminating Northern European art and society at a crucial turning point. "--Susan Foister, deputy director and curator, National Gallery, London
Jeanne Nuechterlein is Reader in the Department of History of Art at the University of York. She is the author of Translating Nature into Art: Holbein, the Reformation, and Renaissance Rhetoric (2011) and Deputy Editor of the journal Art History.
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ISBN-13: 9781789142112
Published: 1 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 288

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