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| Keywords: Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg Erasmus for whom he had worked in Basel to his friend Thomas More the English lawyer scholar and statesman Holbein was welcomed as a guest by More who found him commissions and ordered various works from him including a portrait of his family the original is lost but a sketch and copies by other artists survive and this portrait According to art historian Stephanie Buck More's chain signalling his high rank indicates that this was an official portrait His black mantle trimmed with sable and red velvet sleeves testify to the sitter's wealth Buck suggests that Holbein's art advanced in this portrait in which he uses single colours over large areas and intensifies the physical reality of the fabrics Ellis Waterhouse describes the uniqueness of the style Except for the work of Titian nothing of the same senatorial dignity of presentation was being produced in European portraiture at this time but the means ”predominantly linear ”are the exact opposite to Titian's The figure bulks largely in a clearly defined space whose cubical volume is deliberately reduced by a curtain; features hands and the carriage of the body are all used to convey character with equal effect and the whole work has a Shakespearian profundity and seems to convey the full image of a European personage Stephanie Buck Hans Holbein Cologne Könemann 1999 pp 54 “56; Ellis Waterhouse Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790 London Penguin 1969 p 18 Stephanie Buck Hans Holbein Cologne Könemann 1999 ISBN 3829025831 Creator Hans Holbein d J Uploaded by qp10qp 1527 x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px x100px PD-old-100 Thomas More by Holbein der Jüngere portrait Sable clothing in art Fur garments in art Velvet clothing in art 1527 Paintings by Hans Holbein der Jüngere with fur Family of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein der Jüngere More Thomas painting Fur fashion in 1527 | ||||
