The Victorians thought J M W Turner died in disgrace. Then they discovered his erotica.....
J.M.W Turner RA, arguably our greatest landscape painter, was born a Georgian - an era when attitudes to sex and marriage were perhaps at...
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Little Hans – the earliest known portrait of Hans Holbein??
Hans Holbein was born in Augsburg in Bavaria in 1497. His father and uncle ran a successful workshop in the city, producing devotional...
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Hans Holbein – The Dead Christ
In 1519 both Hans Holbein and his close friend Bonifacius Amerbach lost brothers to the plague. It was perhaps at this moment when,...
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The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger
At the end of 1533, a very large item of personal luggage was manhandled onto a ship from one of London’s docks, headed for France. It...
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