File:Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg
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Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Sir Thomas More | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di Sir Thomas More"
label QS:Lhu,"Morus Tamás portréja"
label QS:Leu,"Thomas Moren erretratua"
label QS:Lca,"Retrat de Thomas More"
label QS:Lde,"Bildnis von Sir Thomas More"
label QS:Lzu,"Portrait of Sir Thomas More"
label QS:Lja,"サー・トーマス・モアの肖像"
label QS:Larz,"صوره السير توماس مور"
label QS:Lpl,"Portret Tomasza Morusa"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van Sir Thomas More"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait de Thomas More"
label QS:Les,"Retrato de Tomás Moro"
label QS:Lcy,"Portread Syr Thomas More"
label QS:Lsv,"Porträtt av Sir Thomas More" |
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | Thomas More | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medium | oil on oak panel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 74.9 cm (29.4 in) ; width: 60.3 cm (23.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+74.90U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+60.30U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q682827
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Accession number |
1912.1.77 (The Frick Collection) |
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Photograph
DescriptionSir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg |
English: Portrait of Sir Thomas More. Oak, 74.2 × 59 cm. Frick Collection, New York. Holbein arrived in England in late 1526 in search of work, bearing an introduction from the humanist scholar Erasmus, for whom he had worked in Basel, to his friend Thomas More, the English lawyer, scholar, and statesman. Holbein was welcomed as a guest by More, who found him commissions and ordered various works from him, including a portrait of his family (the original is lost but a sketch and copies by other artists survive) and this portrait. According to art historian Stephanie Buck, More's chain, signalling his high rank, indicates that this was an official portrait. His black mantle, trimmed with sable, and red velvet sleeves testify to the sitter's wealth. Buck suggests that Holbein's art advanced in this portrait, in which he uses single colours over large areas and intensifies the physical reality of the fabrics. Ellis Waterhouse describes the uniqueness of the style: "Except for the work of Titian, nothing of the same senatorial dignity of presentation was being produced in European portraiture at this time, but the means—predominantly linear—are the exact opposite to Titian's. The figure bulks largely in a clearly defined space whose cubical volume is deliberately reduced by a curtain; features, hands, and the carriage of the body are all used to convey character with equal effect, and the whole work has a Shakespearian profundity and seems to convey the full image of a European personage".(Stephanie Buck, Hans Holbein, Cologne: Könemann, 1999, pp. 54–56; Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain: 1530 to 1790, London: Penguin, 1969, p. 18.) |
Source | Stephanie Buck, Hans Holbein, Cologne: Könemann, 1999, ISBN 3829025831. |
Author | Uploaded by qp10qp. |
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