Word: bornemisza
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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Hans Holbein's first portrait of Henry VIII was a miniature, done in 1537 to win the King's good graces. Four hundred years later German Industrialist Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza bought the panel from Britain's Earl Spencer. Over loud protests from the London art world, he carried it off triumphantly to his villa on the Swiss side of Lake Lugano. Reproduced full-scale opposite, the picture smoothly reveals the great and terrible monarch in all his bejeweled, beplumed, begorged splendor. But Holbein at his most flattering could not help penetrating...