Word: holbein
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...Holbein, the noted English wheelman, recently succeeded in covering 361 miles and 1,146 yards in 24 hours, with a little more than one hour's rest...
...friend to art. Hard times have exercised a profound influence on English and Continental art. All must be "pretty" and "cheerful." Riches are necessary to the artist. If he does not have them, he is crushed and forced to do inferior work. Michael Angelo, Raphael, Rubens, da Vinci, Holbein, if alive to-day would show that notoriety is attained now as it was at the periods in which they lived. The two artists who will be ranked as the great artists of this century are Meissonier and Adolf Mensel. Yet these two are essentially different. The former is the object...
...reputation of the college. Christ Church Hall with its lofty roof of Irish oak and armorial bearings is the finest in the world, Westminister Hall in London excepted. Many celebrated pictures hang upon the walls by Lely, Kneller and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and it is here that Holbein's Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII. are carefully treasured, together with a huge gridiron on wheels, a relic of the banquets given to that monarch by the crafty cardinal...
...belonged to Louis XIV., and which have on their bindings the crowned L and the Fleur-de-lys. Another book has the crowned N and the French eagle; it belonged to the First Consul. Another binding is stamped with the arms of the Dauphin. Several books contain illustrations by Holbein, and there is a fine set of engravings of the Dance of Death. There are a number of the Aldine edition dating from 1521 and onward. A book printed by Gutenberg in 1460, and one by Faust in 1462, are both older than any book the Library has hitherto contained...
...tend to impress a boy with the importance of his position and the necessity of keeping up the honor and dignity of the school. One of the most interesting of the old ceremonies is the public supper in the great dining-hall (adorned with pictures by Verrio, Lely, and Holbein), which is attended by the Lord Mayor and Governor, in company with many distinguished gentlemen and ladies; as the visitors enter, the whole vast assembly of boys rise, and, led by organ and choristers, make the arches ring with anthems, preserved in the school from the time...