Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543)During the end of the fifteenth century and at the beginning of the sixteenth century lived one of the greatest portrait artists of all time. His name is Hans Holbein and was part of what is called the Northern Renaissance. He was born into a family of artists with his father, uncle, and older brother all artists. Hans Holbein is referred to as “the younger” because his father’s name is also Hans Holbein, and he is referred to as “the elder.” Holbein the younger was born in the winter of either 1497 or 1498 in a very wealthy city called Augsburg, Germany. At an early age he began to study painting with his father, who was also a recognized artist of the portraits. In the year 1515 when Hans the younger was around 17 or 18 years old he moved away from his family and established himself in Basel, Switzerland as a book illustrator. His work in Basel during the decade of 1515 to 1525 was extremely varied and sometimes derived from another’s work. It was during this decade that Holbein made a trip to Italy, and there he ran into the works of the Italian Renaissance painters like Leonardo da Vinci. The impact of these and other artists on Holbein’s work can be seen in the portraits of
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