Volume 47, Number 6 · April 13, 2000
The Art of the Cool
By Willibald Sauerländer
Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man
by Derek Wilson
London: Orion (distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square), 308 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Hans Holbein
by Oskar Bätschmann, by Pascal Griener
Princeton University Press, 255 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Holbein's Ambassadors Press)
by Susan Foister, by Ashok Roy, by Martin Wyld
London: National Gallery (distributed in the US by Yale University, 112 pp., $25.00 (paper)
'Spirit and genius are not bound to locality or family.' With these words Karel van Mander, known as the Northern Vasari, praised the genius of Hans Holbein. In his essay of 1604, van Mander, known for his admira-tion of his fellow Northern artists, may simply have been using a eulogizing figure of speech. But it provides a poignant characterization of Holbein, whose entire career had been shaped by his detachment from each of the many places in which he lived.
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