Saint Ursula, the heroine of the Christian legend, widespread in the Middle Ages in Western European countries. According to legend, Ursula, the daughter of the British king, was famous for

Hans Holbein the Younger was born in the family of the artist and it is therefore quite natural that his initial training took place in the workshop of his father

“The Passion of the Lord in gray tones” are considered one of the main creations of Hans Holbein the Elder. The cycle was named after the gray monochrome color scheme,

In 1516-1529 Holbein intensively worked also on book ornamentation, performing many titles, vignettes, frames, initials for humanistic, and later reformist literature. In them he acts as a first-class decorator, who

Robert Cheesman was an influential figure in the county of Middlesex, he was responsible for army training and several times equipped troops for the military campaigns of King Henry VIII.

When in 1528 Holbein returned to Basel from England, he found his family in distress. In the magnificent portrait of his wife and two children, their faces look tired and

Sir Nicholas Carew – Quartermaster of the English King Henry VIII. He was the head of the younger branch of a very ancient family. His father Richard Carew was knighted

A recognized masterpiece of the English period of Hans Holbein’s work is Portrait of merchant George Guissé. A young merchant sits at a table covered with an expensive oriental carpet.

“The Passion of the Lord in gray tones” are considered one of the main creations of Hans Holbein the Elder. The cycle was named after the gray monochrome color scheme,

About three-quarters of Holbein’s artistic heritage is portraits. After his move to England in 1532, the artist in general rarely worked in other genres, almost exclusively switching to the creation

“The Passion of the Lord in gray tones” are considered one of the main creations of Hans Holbein the Elder. The cycle was named after the gray monochrome color scheme,

The history of writing this unusual work is unknown to us. Before Holbein, the plot “Christ in a tomb” was developed by other artists, but none of them depicted the

Hans Holbein the Younger is the most harmonious among German Renaissance artists. He studied in Outsburg, in his father’s workshop. In 1515, Holbein moved to Basel, where he immediately fell

Sir Henry Guildford is two years older than King Henry VIII and was his favorite. He did at court a brilliant career in court as a controller of the royal

Portraits of the Basil burgomaster Jacob Meyer and his wife Dorothea, created by Golubeyn in 1516. Stylistics of these works directly sends the viewer to the Italian painting of the