Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954) Autorretrato con mono (Self-Portrait with Monkey) 1938 Oil on masonite, 40.64 x 30.48 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Frida Kahlo’s story is one of both tragedy and perseverance. Kahlo contracted polio at the age of six. The disease…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Noli me Tangere 1526–1528 Oil on oak panel, 76.7 x 95.8 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London When the diarist John Evelyn saw this painting in Charles II’s Private Lodgings at Whitehall in 1680 he recorded…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus of Rotterdam writing 1523 Mixed technique glued on paper, on pine, 37.1 x 30.8 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel See also: • Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Roundel Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam 1532 Oil on wood, diameter 14.2 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel See also: • Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus writing 1528 Oil on wood, 43 x 33 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Copie de mémoire de l’Erasmus de Holbein s.d. National Gallery of Art, Washington Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Erasme c.1899 Musée…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of Henry VIII of England c.1537 Oil on panel, 28 x 20 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Portraiture was the most popular genre in sixteenth-century England, and indeed one of the few available to artists following the…