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Blogs about: Hans Holbein

Looking at Holbein

Sheila Newbery wrote 1 month ago: Images of the Old Testament, with engravings by Hans Holbein (Berkley, 2009) © Sheila Newbery … more →

Tags: Portraits, LARGE FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHY

Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett

gypsy818 wrote 2 months ago: Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fascinating piece of histor … more →

Tags: Historical Fiction, Henry VIII

Dissolving Before His Very Eyes

2guysreadinggibbon wrote 2 months ago: Day 29 Ken here Still plowing through Chapter 10 - Goths Temple of Diana Ephesus - miniature reconst … more →

Tags: ken, Chapter 10, Goths, Gallienus, valerian, Persians, Odenathus, zenobia, Temple of Diana Ephesus

Anamorphic Riddle Answered6 comments

pluribusone wrote 3 months ago: Anamorphosis, in its earliest use in art, during the Renaissance, is defined as a perspective on an … more →

Tags: Noetitek™ Developments, art and architecture, Spirituality and religion, Occult, Renaissance Art, Anamorphosis, anamorphic, The Ambassadors, Nicolaus Kratzer

The Nachleben of Holbein2 comments

bonaelitterae wrote 4 months ago: Last week saw me at Windsor, to see the exhibition to celebrate the quincentenary of the accession o … more →

Tags: Exhibitions, Renaissance studies, Henry VIII, George Vertue, Windsor Castle, Thomas Howard earl of Arundel

Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries

curiousartarticles wrote 4 months ago: The National Gallery of Art in London is organizing a curious exhibition, open from June 30 to septe … more →

Tags: fake art, fakes mistakes art, forgery fake london art, National Gallery (London), piero della francesca

Holbein's More

redtreetimes wrote 4 months ago: You run across a lot of people who are completely dismissive of anything from the past.  They feel t … more →

Tags: Painting, influences, Favorite Things, frick, Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII, utopia

Anne of Cleves7 comments

Victoria Skerrett wrote 5 months ago:   Anne Of Cleves ‘Nothing so fair as she has been reported’ Anne was in many ways the luckiest of al … more →

Tags: Tudor people, Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII, Hever Castle, Thomas Cranmer

CNN News Snippet of the Day: What's So Wrong With Being Childless?

todaysnewsart wrote 5 months ago: He asks sincerely. Erasmus, by Hans Holbein the Younger … more →

Tags: Art, News, Snippet, Humor, writing, Headline, Artist, Random, Painting

Books bound in human skin

oho wrote 5 months ago: Deathly Skinbook …gives pause when thinking of the “spine” of a book. The Australi … more →

Tags: Books, anthropodermic bibliopegy, skin, Red Barn murder, Dance of Death

Fox News Snippet of the Day: New GOP Forerunner1 comment

todaysnewsart wrote 5 months ago: After Obama the need for fresh leadership was clear as a bell. Portrait of Edward VI as a Child, by … more →

Tags: Art, News, Snippet, Comedy, edward vi, Entertainment, FOX, Fox News, GOP

CNN Headline of the Day: Would You Pay for a Kidney?3 comments

todaysnewsart wrote 6 months ago: Portrait of Henry III, by Hans Holbein the Younger; Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David; Napoleon … more →

Tags: cnn headlines, Art, News, Jacques Louis David, Photography, Humor, History, writing, napoleon

This Hans Holbein Painting of Christ after Crucifixion Sparked Fyodor Dostoevsky's Imagination1 comment

santitafarella wrote 9 months ago: While living in Bern, Germany, Fyodor Dostoevsky was mesmerized by the Hans Holbein painting below. … more →

Tags: agnostic, atheist, Dostoevsky, Faith, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jesus, Nature, Nihilism, Religion

Danse Joyeuse, Danse Macabre1 comment

legendumst wrote 10 months ago: … le bonheur et l’innocence de la lecture, qui est peut-être en effet une danse avec un parten … more →

Tags: Cagibi, Reading, Benjamin Franklin, death, Maurice Blanchot

Altered art book page 13 continued: Danse Macabre1 comment

echostains wrote 11 months ago: Tarot death card Vanitas paintings take the form of still lifes, consisting of objects that symbolis … more →

Tags: Art, altered art book, altered book, death, Memento Mori, Danse Macabre, vanitas, Flowers, Ambassadors

More (L ss)1 comment

I, Enoch wrote 1 year ago: further cloth studies … more →

Tags: cloth, cloth study, Diego Velazquez, el greco, Portrait of Pope Innocent X, Sir Thomas More

Boxed Sets: Assembling Objects, Images, and People

laurachristensen wrote 1 year ago: Kidspace @ MASS MoCA exhibited Boxed Sets in summer 2007. The three-person show included stained gla … more →

Tags: Boxed Sets @ Kidspace, altered photographs, Antique, hawk, kidspace, massmoca, Miniatures, oil paint, Photographs

Medieval Hotties16 comments

Scarlet Blue wrote 1 year ago: by Scarlet W. Blue When I was younger, I used to do charcoal drawings, often copies of the 15th-16th … more →

Tags: Art, jonestown, Jonestown Kool-aid, Painting, Art History

#37 ~ Portrait of an Unknown Woman1 comment

Literate Housewife wrote 2 years ago: Portrait of the Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett I just hate it when a good book ends in a hurry. Tha … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Henry VIII, What's up?, Historical Fiction, orphan, Adoption, adoptee, Protestantism


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