The first illustrated biography of Hans Holbein, the painter who depicted some of the most powerful people of the early sixteenth century, in three decades.
Franny Moyle is a British television producer and author. Her first book Desperate Romantics was adapted into the BBC drama serial of the same title by screenwriter Peter Bowker. Her second book Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde was published in 2011 to critical acclaim. In 2016 she released The Extraordinary Life and Times of J.M.W Turner.
This is a great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic
and richly brocaded... I take my feathered cap off to Moyle and her
publishers. This is a triumph of book-making as well as biography.
This sumptuous book is a jewel in its own right'
*The Times*
Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein
masterpiece. Beautifully written and illustrated, this book is a
must for lovers of Tudor history
*Tracy Borman*
Franny Moyle rediscovers the elusive man behind the most famous
artworks in Tudor England. The King's Painter is full of insight
into Hans Holbein's artistic process but also gives us a seat
beside a man who had an access-all-areas pass to the most intimate
circles in sixteenth-century Europe. This is a gorgeous book, to
which I am sure I shall return again and again
*Dan Jones*
One of the great strengths of Moyle's book is that it allows you to
view Holbein's enormous versatility. Ambitious [and] sumptuously
illustrated
*Spectator*
Vivid, judicious and lavishly illustrated
*Sunday Times*
A lavish, unflagging catalogue and summary of the state of our
knowledge of Holbein
*Daily Telegraph*
Vivid and engaging... Drawing on extensive research, Moyle proves
that Holbein was so much more than just a painter... Although The
King's Painter is fascinating for the fresh perspective it gives of
the Tudor world, its greatest achievement is to bring Holbein out
from behind his easel and shown him in all his brilliant,
multi-faceted, human glory'
*BBC World History Magazine*
This fascinating account brings the Tudor era compellingly to
life
*History Revealed*
I devoured this book in days. It brings to vibrant, colourful life
the man who gave us almost our entire visual understanding of Henry
VIII and his court. Thoroughly researched and written with a verve
and style that makes reading it like reading a good novel
*Aspects of History*
The publisher Head of Zeus is acquiring a reputation for producing
gorgeous-looking books. This life of Holbein is a case in point.
Holbein's extraordinary life story is traced from Germany to the
court of Henry VIII, where he painted the monarch in that famous
power stance. Not all the paintings are so simple in their
messages. The Ambassadors, with its mysterious stretched image of a
skull, is typical of Holbein’s tricksy style
*The Times*
This excellent, lavishly illustrated, biography of Hans Holbein the
Younger vividly captures the artist's life, times and work amid the
religious and political turmoil of the 16th century
*Choice Magazine*
Through telling his story anew, author Franny Moyle not only shines
a light on the man who has come to define our perception of the
Henrician court, but also many aspects of the Tudor era, a time of
political turbulence and utter cultural transformation
*This England*
Perceptive readings of individual images
*TLS*
A lavish, ravishing thing
*Spectator*
Franny Moyle has gathered the relatively few facts known about the
portraitist and combined them adroitly with the wealth of material
about Henrician England to show how a Basel native became our great
national painter
*New Statesman*
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