Holbein at the Tudor Court

Kate Heard

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English

Royal Collection
06 February 2024

Individual artists, art monographs; History

Holbein at the Tudor Court focuses on the internationally significant collection of portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger in the Royal Collection. These portraits, in drawing, miniature and painting, date almost exclusively from Holbein's period as the pre-eminent artist at the court of Henry VIII.

This richly illustrated publication has essays on the artist, his sitters and on the history of his work in the Royal Collection, and a series of entries on individual works - looking at both on the work of art and on the identity of the sitter featured, and uses, where possible voices from the period (as found in letters, poems, administrative records and diplomatic accounts) to bring alive the world of the sixteenth-century English court.

By: Kate Heard
Imprint: Royal Collection
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm,
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781909741874
ISBN 10: 1909741876
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 06 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kate Heard is Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust. Her previous publications include George IV: Art and Spectacle (2019), The First Georgians: Art & Monarchy (2014) and High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson (2013).

Reviews for Holbein at the Tudor Court

"""Accompanying an exceptional exhibition of Hans Holbein the Younger's drawings at the Queen's Gallery in London, is a small catalogue written by the show's curator, Kate Heard. Holbein's paintings are delightful, but his preparatory drawings of the same sitters are genuinely moving, such is their realism and intimacy, transporting us back almost 500 years. There are profiles of the sitters--the Tudor period's movers and shakers--but where the catalogue is more interesting is in its details of Holbein's methods (embellishing certain cheekbones) or things you may have missed ('a touch of greenish watercolour in the eyes').""-- ""The Art Newspaper, top art books of 2023"""