Non en de Dood
Sull’opera
Con le parole del museo — in olandese
Een non knielt met haar handen gevouwen in gebed in haar kamer bij een altaar. Ze draait haar hoofd naar een man, haar minnaar, die zit op het bed en speelt op een luit. De Dood dooft een kaars bij het altaar. In de marge boven de prent staat de tekst Prover. XIIII.
Rijksmuseum
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- RP-P-OB-4509L(V)
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Hans Holbein
Tutta la vitac. 1522
Son born: Philipp Holbein I
1524
Journey to France
He visited France, probably in search of work at the court of Francis I; there he may have seen the portrait drawings of Jean Clouet, whose technique of drawing in colored chalks he adopted.
1526
Departure for England on Erasmus's Recommendation
On the advice of Erasmus of Rotterdam he set out for England in search of work, visiting France and the Netherlands on the way; Erasmus recommended him to Thomas More.
1526
Received into Thomas More's Humanist Circle
In England he was received by Sir Thomas More, who found him a series of commissions; in the humanist circle Holbein quickly won a high reputation. More wrote to Erasmus: "Your painter is a wonderful artist."
August 1528
Return to Basel, Purchase of a House
He returned to Basel and bought a house in the St. Johanns-Vorstadt, becoming a neighbor of the publisher Hieronymus Froben; in 1531, having grown wealthy from his English commissions, he bought the adjoining house as well.
