The King’s Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein

by Franny Moyle
@FrannyMoyle

From a distinguished art historian, a dramatic reappraisal of Renaissance master Hans Holbein, whose art shaped politics and immortalized the Tudors

Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realized portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, his advisors Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, his wives Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the age, Holbein was a multifaceted genius: a humanist, satirist, and political propagandist, and a deft man whose work was rich in layers of symbolism and allusion.

Interview with the Author

History Extra 
Painting the Tudors: Hans Holbein the Younger
5/28/21         54 min

Talking Tudors 
Episode 132 – Hans Holbein the Younger with Franny Moyle
10/23/21        62 min

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