Example sentences for: holbein

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  • The northern European rooms include a splendid Portrait of His Father (1490) by Albrecht Dürer; Adam and Eve (1528) by Lucas Cranach; Richard Southwell by Hans Holbein; and a moving Mater Dolorosa by Joos van Cleve.

  • Most notable among the museum’s non-Italian painters are El Greco, Breughel (Blind Leading the Blind and the Misanthrope), Cranach, Holbein, Dürer, and a Van Dyck Crucifixion.

  • German: Gripping Self-Portrait by Dürer; Holbein’s Erasmus.

  • An artist who takes a bite out of his own painting, and who derives his subject matter from a dream, is, in some sense, a private artist; and the later work, as Varnedoe has organized it, suggests an increasing absorption in a personal vocabulary composed of body parts; crosshatching patterns (an overworked motif of the 1970s); vases; clocks; skulls; specific borrowings from Duchamp, Picassso, Holbein, and a 16 th -century Grünewald altarpiece; little stick figures with bubble heads; and, in the most recent work, the image of a spiral galaxy.

  • Included here are such masterpieces as Hans Holbein’s portrait of Georg Gisze (1532); the rather amusing The Fountain of Youth (1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder; Van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (1440); Van Dyck’s portraits of a Genoese couple (1626); Vermeer’s study, Young Lady with a Pearl Necklace (1664) and, among one of the largest Rembrandt collections in the world, a portrait of the artist’s second wife, Hendrickje Stoffels (1659).


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