He might technically be “the younger,” but he still died 500 years ago. He’s also responsible for the best painting show in New York right now. I’m speaking, of course, of Hans Holbein the Younger, ...

People pay good money for the kind of cheek surgery Hans Holbein performed his 1533 portrait of merchant Derich Born. Conservation work has revealed a jaw-slimming procedure done over the course of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hans Holbein’s portraits of a barrel-chested Henry VIII define how we think about the insatiable Tudor tyrant and his court - Fine ...

We trust that political art is always bad art, but Hans Holbein the Younger, one of the first masters of the modern character study, was a political artist to the tip of his brush. He was also, as ...

An exhibition at the Getty unleashes the dynamic character of Holbein’s portraits in ways I’ve never seen before. Hans Holbein the Younger, “Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey” (about 1532–33), black and ...

The unprecedented exhibition of Renaissance portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger at the J. Paul Getty Museum opens with a bang. His staggeringly beautiful painting of a young woman, wife of a London ...

One of Hans Holbein the Younger’s portraits, of a young man in a fur-lined gown, which has been in possession A detail from Hans Holbein the Younger’s portrait of Hans of Antwerp. (Courtesy Royal ...

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne. As two new exhibitions ...

The first thing you notice about the much-hyped Hans Holbein portrait of Henry VIII at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford is that it ain’t very big. The painting is emblazoned on highway ...

Hans Holbein the Younger got around. The son of the late-medieval painter Hans Holbein the Elder, the German Renaissance artist moved between Germany and Switzerland, then between the continent and ...

The Tudors are the most famous English dynasty of them all. Thanks to a plethora of blockbuster films and TV adaptations, Henry VIII and his six wives are as familiar to us as soap stars. Less ...