Henry VIII’s Painter Gets His Biggest Show Ever In The United States

If you imagine Tudor England in your mind’s eye, chances are it stems directly from the work of Hans Holbein the Younger.

While attending the recent opening of “Holbein: Capturing Character,” the new exhibition dedicated to the German Renaissance master Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543) that just opened at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, I observed a visitor asking the security guards, “Where are the pictures of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell?”

This was a fair question since Holbein, although born in Augsburg and for many years a citizen of Basel, is most famous for the portraits […]

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