Word: holbein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show along the galleries of the second floor as a "miniature history of art." Plain to see last week was the centuries' meandering sequence of styles in painting, each example a world-famed masterpiece. And Director Harshe headlined the show's "ten most significant" pictures: Hans Holbein's Portrait of Catherine Howard from Toledo's Museum of Art; Tiziano Vicellio's (Titian) Venus and the Lute Player from Manhattan's Duveen Bros.; Domenico Theotocopuli's (El Greco) The Assumption of the Virgin from Chicago's own Art Institute; Frans Hals...
...Holbeins represent another interesting phase in the history of German art," Dr. Kuhn continued. "Of course Holbein the Younger is almost universally known, but I think it is a great pity that the work of the elder Holbein has been so overshadowed by that of his better known son. It is easy to see that Holbein the Younger got his interest in art from his father's sketches of monks, nobles, and tradesmen, such as these you see here. Holbein the Younger, by the way, developed the exclusive technique of using black and white ink on colored paper...
Whom asked to compare the drawings of the two artists Durer and Holbein the Younger, Dr. Kuhn said that in his opinion Holbein's portraits were completely objective, very exact, and distinctly unemotional, whereas Durer always attempted to endow his subject with a personal touch, almost an appearance of pent-up emotion...
...important collection consisting of 262 drawings taken from the enormous number gathered together by the late C. A. Loeser '87, has been recently given to the Fogg Museum, it was learned yesterday. This famous Loeser Collection includes two drawings that may be assigned to Holbein and Rambrandt...
...Fogg Art Museum is giving an exhibition of wood cuts which will remain for several weeks. The collection includes, from the early German school a rare cut of Hans Holbein, the younger, entitled "The Dance of Death." The modern American school is represented chiefly by the work of Rockwell Kent, who gives a symbolical study of life in his "Over the Ultimate." The collection also includes his vivid illustrations to "Moby Dick...