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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book is ideal for art students or anyone who wants to enhance their drawing skills through copying the drawings of the Old Masters. The drawings are of really good quality and practially every single drawing is suitable for practical purposes. The book is what is called "value for money", strongly recommend to anyone who is studying art. Holbein Portrait Drawings: 44 Plates by Hans Holbein the Younger (Dover Art Library)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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If you don't know much about Holbein then this is a good book to start with as it's inexpensive and contains a large number of illustrations which introduce his style. Holbein was one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and there are some great 'coffee table' books to move onto after this if you're suitably enamoured with his handiwork.
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Holbein was such an amazing artist - the way he captures his subjects so realistically, using only charcol is jaw dropping. Unlike almost all the other portraits from this era, when you look at his drawings you feel the subject is almost alive. You can envisage them as living, breathing human beings, evey bit as real as us. I think a lot of this is because of the use of shading and tone, and he captures real emotion in the sitters' eyes. Because of this amazing realism, the gulf between 'us and them' somehow lessens. These people may have existed centuries ago, but they were just like you and I.
Most other paintings from this era (and the Elizabethan era too) are so strange and flat and two dimensional that they evoke little response. I have always looked at those type of paintings with such dissapointment because of their inability to capture the subject as they would really have appearred. (One example that comes to mind is the most commonly used portrait of Anne Boleyn by an unknown artist, which makes her look like an ill-proportioned cartoon.) Holbein's drawings/paintings are the closest things to photographs as we could possibly get. And because these are his own sketches he has not been forced to tinker with them in any way to flatter the sitter (as with his famous portrait of Henry VIII.) I have never seen any other portrait of Anne Boleyn which ever felt real or reliable - except this one. I am very interested in the Tudor period and to see some of it's characters come alive is such a delight. My only complaint would be that the majority of the portraits are not of the famous or infamous characters of the court - most are the lesser known ladies and Lords. If only there were more of Anne and her siblings, or of Katherine Howard! I hope there is a treasure trove of more Holbein skecthes waiting to be discovered!
Most other paintings from this era (and the Elizabethan era too) are so strange and flat and two dimensional that they evoke little response. I have always looked at those type of paintings with such dissapointment because of their inability to capture the subject as they would really have appearred. (One example that comes to mind is the most commonly used portrait of Anne Boleyn by an unknown artist, which makes her look like an ill-proportioned cartoon.) Holbein's drawings/paintings are the closest things to photographs as we could possibly get. And because these are his own sketches he has not been forced to tinker with them in any way to flatter the sitter (as with his famous portrait of Henry VIII.) I have never seen any other portrait of Anne Boleyn which ever felt real or reliable - except this one. I am very interested in the Tudor period and to see some of it's characters come alive is such a delight. My only complaint would be that the majority of the portraits are not of the famous or infamous characters of the court - most are the lesser known ladies and Lords. If only there were more of Anne and her siblings, or of Katherine Howard! I hope there is a treasure trove of more Holbein skecthes waiting to be discovered!
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