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Recently made reproductions of about sixty portraits by Holbein, the famous 16th century painter, the originals of which hang in the Royal Library at Windsor, England, have just been placed on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. The reproduction plates are the work of the Librarian to the King of England, Sir J. W. Fortescue, and have received high praise from competent authorities in this country. The portraits are of famous people in the court of Henry VIII of England...
...advance made in woodcutting when the designs of great artists were cut on the block by woodcutters who had gained skill by years of experience, is shown in examples from the work of Durer and Holbein. There are prints from the great series of woodcuts designed by Durer,--the Apocalypse, Passion, Small Passion, and Life of the Virgin,--and from Holbein's Dance of Death and Old Testament...
From Henry Goldman, "The Musician", by Holbein...
...given by Professor Wendell, will be withdrawn; Comparative Literature 11, the Romantic Movement in the 19th Century, will be made a full course; Comparative Literature 12 hf., the Types of Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries, will be given as a half-course; Fine Arts 5m hf., Durer, Holbein and Cranach, will be a new course; Fine Arts 5n hf., Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Raphael, will be a new course; Fine Arts 5p hf., Florentine Engraving, will be a new course; Music 2b hf., Model Counterpoint, will be a new course, given by Mr. Wallace Goodrich...
...Vitality is the essence of the performance. The Wolsey of Sir Herbert Tree, the King Henry of Mr. Lyn Harding, the Queen Katharine of Miss Edith Wynne Matthison seem to have stepped from the canvasses of Holbein at Hampton Court, so veracious are they in posture and costume. But they do more than fill the eye. The vigor and pulse of their reality and the magnetism of their life touch our emotions and make us understand the human qualities of these princely beings...