Episode 46
Holbein and the Tudor Court
How did Holbein come to paint the iconic full-length portrait of King Henry VIII? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb further explores the painter's fascinating life and work with three of the world's foremost Holbein scholars.
Not Just the Tudors · History Hit
September 23, 202144m 36s
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Show Notes
<p>In the early 1530s, the painter Hans Holbein the Younger returns to London. His patronage by Anne Boleyn and the influential Thomas Cromwell leads to Holbein creating the full-length portrait of King Henry VIII that has dominated how we have visualised him ever since. </p><br><p>In this second of a two-part <em>Not Just the Tudors</em> special, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb further explores Holbein's fascinating life and work with three of the world's foremost scholars of the artist - Jeanne Nuechterlein, Franny Moyle and Susan Foister. </p>
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