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Rare Van Dyck Painting Found In Farmer’s Shed Covered In Bird Droppings Expected To Sell For Up To $3 Million
A portrait found in a New York farm shed covered in bird droppings was recently authenticated as an original work by the ...
The Art Newspaper5d
Holbein portrait, Inuit print collection and Antony Gormley sculpture: May acquisitions round-up
Works acquired by Rotterdam’s new Fenix museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and a small Greek island ...
The National Gallery’s revamp is a triumph
The expansive new Sainsbury Wing foyer ushers visitors into the gallery’s exhilarating rehang ...
PBS1mon
Costume Secrets of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
I’m at peace with period drama [costuming], because I love art ... directly inspired by a Holbein portrait of Jane. (Right) Jane Seymour, Queen of England c 1536 by Hans Holbein Joanna Eatwell ...
NBC Connecticut2mon
Famous Henry VIII portrait on display at Hartford museum
A museum in Hartford is now featuring a famous portrait of Henry VIII. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) is currently on display.
Hyperallergic9mon
The Six Wives of Henry VIII Get Their Due
So many unsupported suggestions threaten to undercut show’s historical integrity: for example, the caption for Hans Holbein’s portrait of ... Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden ...
London Review of Books10mon
Young Men in Flames
Tudor art has a poor reputation ... but Faraday is sceptical. ‘While illusionistic portraits by Hans Holbein and Hans Eworth would have been present in English collections throughout the period,’ she ...
The Financial Times11mon
Six Lives, National Portrait Gallery review — Henry VIII’s wives become queens of their own domain
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the recent musical Six, Henry VIII’s queens are solo singers (“Don’t Lose Ur Head”, “Heart of ...
The Independent11mon
Six Lives at the National Portrait Gallery shows Henry VIII’s wives lost the battle for a legacy
First, visitors must face what these women had to contend with, in the shape of Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1573 portrait of Henry VIII. It’s an image that came to represent power itself ...
Sydney Morning Herald1y
All sizzle but no substance: An art critic’s take on King Charles’ portrait
It’s a distinctly unorthodox kind of royal portrait. A detailed ... even if the greatest of them were foreigners. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) transformed the massive bulk of Henry ...
The Art Newspaper1y
The Tudor blockbuster: why Holbein still mesmerises 500 years on
Holbein’s portrait drawings particularly capture our attention ... For the Tudors, it must have been a moment of great wonder. Before the fall: Hans Holbein the Younger’s Anne Boleyn (1533-36 ...
CNN1y
Many intimate Renaissance portraits were hidden behind covers — this new exhibition explores why
But an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance ... Titian and Hans Holbein. One piece is a circular cover painting ...