Pascal blaise

1997 · 117302 — Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1997. Hardcover. VG/VG light shelfwear but pages are otherwise clean and clear. Brown cloth over boards with gilt spine lettering; Color illustrated dj.; 255 pp.; 268 illustrations 75 color and 193 bw. "Holbein was a hugely ambitious artist and even during his formative years in Lucerne and Basle undertook to make designs for jewelry stained glass and woodcuts as well as to paint major altarpieces and portraits. He also carried out several monumental decorative schemes for private houses and civic buildings. This book offers both a remarkable range of extant visual evidence and a rewarding and scholarly account of Holbein's oeuvre in its full historical and artistic contexts. In addition the authors include a reappraisal of the high reputation in which Holbein was held during the centuries following his death as illustrated by the opinion expressed by the Elizabethan miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard and the searches undertaken by the French collector Charles Patin and by the remarks and exertions of the wealthy eighteenth-century dilettante Horace Walpole." - dust jacket. Princeton University Press hardcover books