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Flexibility and Rapport: Holbein's Working Method
Anne T. Woollett, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Drawing in Time: Portrait Studies by Holbein and His Contemporaries
Austėja Mackelaitė, Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543) was among the most skilled, versatile, and inventive artists of the European Renaissance. This symposium will feature presentations from an international group of experts, focusing on Holbein’s varied contributions to the development of sixteenth-century art. Speakers will explore both the material and the conceptual underpinnings of Holbein’s portrait practice, his activities as a designer of prints and metalwork, and the early history of reception in Tudor England.
The symposium took place in conjunction with the exhibition Holbein: Capturing Character on Friday, May 6, 2022, and was co-organized with the Morgan's Drawing Institute and Education Department.
Flexibility and Rapport: Holbein's Working Method
Anne T. Woollett, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Drawing in Time: Portrait Studies by Holbein and His Contemporaries
Austėja Mackelaitė, Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543) was among the most skilled, versatile, and inventive artists of the European Renaissance. This symposium will feature presentations from an international group of experts, focusing on Holbein’s varied contributions to the development of sixteenth-century art. Speakers will explore both the material and the conceptual underpinnings of Holbein’s portrait practice, his activities as a designer of prints and metalwork, and the early history of reception in Tudor England.
The symposium took place in conjunction with the exhibition Holbein: Capturing Character on Friday, May 6, 2022, and was co-organized with the Morgan's Drawing Institute and Education Department.


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