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قراءة كتاب Holbein
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HOLBEIN
PLATE I.—GEORGE GISZE. Frontispiece
(In the Royal Museum, Berlin)
This picture of a leading merchant of the Steelyard was painted in 1532, and constituted the artist's successful attempt to capture the patronage of one of the wealthiest merchant communities in the world. That the patronage was forthcoming quickly is suggested by the picture of another merchant of the Steelyard dated the same year, and now in the Windsor collection.
HOLBEIN
BY S. L. BENSUSAN
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
LONDON. T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| I. | Introduction | 11 |
| II. | The Artist's Life | 29 |
| III. | Holbein in England | 51 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Plate | Page | |
| I. | George Gisze | Frontispiece |
| In the Royal Museum, Berlin | ||
| II. | The Ambassadors | 14 |
| In the National Gallery, London | ||
| III. | Portrait of a Man | 24 |
| In the Imperial Gallery, Vienna | ||
| IV. | Jane Seymour | 34 |
| In the Imperial Gallery, Vienna | ||
| V. | Anne of Cleves | 40 |
| In the Louvre | ||
| VI. | Erasmus | 50 |
| In the Louvre | ||
| VII. | Sir Richard Southwell | 60 |
| In the Uffizi Gallery, Florence | ||
| VIII. | Sir Henry Wyatt | 70 |
| In the Louvre | ||
I
INTRODUCTION
Hans Holbein the younger is perhaps the most outstanding figure in the history of German art. In the eyes of some he may yield place to his great contemporary Albert Dürer, but it is impossible [12] to deny that for all his indisputable genius Dürer stood for a time that was passing, and Holbein for one that was to come. The younger man touched art at every point, nowhere without mastery; and whether we consider him as a draughtsman, a decorator, a painter of frescoes, a portrait painter, an architect, a modeller, a designer of jewellery, a book illustrator, or a miniaturist, we find ourselves face to face with such an extraordinary measure of achievement, that the claim to remembrance and admiration could be sustained if his art gift had been single instead of universal.
PLATE II.—THE AMBASSADORS
(In the National Gallery, London)
This picture, painted by Holbein when he was at the zenith of his powers, is well known to visitors to our National Gallery. The figures have been identified by some authorities as Jean de Dinteville and George de Selve, one was the French Ambassador to King Henry's Court, the other a great scholar who also served diplomacy. Both died young. The picture has roused controversy, as certain writers are of opinion that the subjects are Henry and Philip, Counts Palatine of the Rhine.
Some men are echoes of their own time. Circumstance has made