He might technically be “the younger,” but he still died 500 years ago. He’s also responsible for the best painting show in New York right now. I’m speaking, of course, of Hans Holbein the Younger, ...

People pay good money for the kind of cheek surgery Hans Holbein performed his 1533 portrait of merchant Derich Born. Conservation work has revealed a jaw-slimming procedure done over the course of ...

One of Hans Holbein the Younger’s portraits, of a young man in a fur-lined gown, which has been in possession A detail from Hans Holbein the Younger’s portrait of Hans of Antwerp. (Courtesy Royal ...

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne. As two new exhibitions ...

Hans Holbein the Younger got around. The son of the late-medieval painter Hans Holbein the Elder, the German Renaissance artist moved between Germany and Switzerland, then between the continent and ...

An exhibition at the Getty unleashes the dynamic character of Holbein’s portraits in ways I’ve never seen before. Hans Holbein the Younger, "Simon George of Cornwall" (about 1535–40), mixed technique ...

The modest town of Augsburg, in southern Bavaria, is twinned in this country with Inverness. Yet, with respect to the latter’s long line of caber-tossing champs, it’s actually the former that produced ...

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Kim Kardashian is famous for her contouring make-up tricks. But it turns out the original pioneer of the technique may actually have been a 16th century artist famous for painting royals and grandees ...