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Oskar Bätschmann and Pascal Griener
Trans Pascal Griener and Cecilia Hurley
Princeton University Press, 1997.
256 pp.;
70 color ills.;
190 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(0691005168)
This sumptuously illustrated volume on Hans Holbein the Younger is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on this important artist. Holbein is known for precise rendering of color, texture, and physical likeness in his celebrated portraits of wealthy merchants, aristocracy, and royalty. In addition to such renowned portraits as Thomas More of 1527 and the so-called French Ambassadors of 1533, among others, Bätschmann and Griener also include Holbein's less familiar book illustrations and his "monumental decorative" work, such as designs for murals in Basle from the 1520s. The virtue of this new volume, which sets out to be "neither a…
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September 1, 1998
