Holbein’s Wit: Inside Hans Holbein's Portraiture 9/1/26

Hans Holbein the Younger is renowned as an outstandingly realistic painter—the acme of Renaissance naturalism. This lecture will reveal the Tudor artist at play, juggling the paradoxes that arise in the art of portraiture.

Hans Holbein was a purveyor of wit and artifice. Examining some of Holbein's most famous paintings—including The Ambassadors, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and the DAM’s own Prince Edward—renowned art historian Alexander Marr will discuss the artist’s visual jokes and serious meditations on identity, mortality, and invention.