Identifier: hansholbeinyoung01cham (find matches)
Title: Hans Holbein the younger
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chamberlain, Arthur Bensley
Subjects: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Vol. I., Plate 34 Basel Gallery THE HOLY FAMILY Washed draiving on a red ground
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THE DEAD CHRIST IN THE TOMB 101 made shortly after Holbeins return from Lucerne to Basel. It is amost sympathetic and natural study of maternal love and the happinessof childhood, and has a grace and charm which the two other drawings,made at about the same date, do not possess in the same degree.1 After the early Cross-Bearing panel of 1515 at Karlsruhe,there is no dated picture among this group of sacred paintings untilthe Dead Christ in the Tomb, in the Basel Gallery (No. 318), ofthe year 1521, is reached (PL 35) .2 This remarkable work, which formspart of the Amerbach Collection, is a life-size study of a dead man,and one whose end has, perhaps, been brought about by violence.Holbein has painted the corpse upon a long, low panel, and hasrepresented it as lying enclosed within the narrow confines of a tombof plain marble of a greenish hue, the side facing the spectator beingremoved in order to permit a view of the interior. The body, whichalmost fills the narrow space, rests on its

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