AFA 22nd Anniversary

HAPPENINGS 22nd Anniversary 18 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance Through January 9, 2022 Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA February 11, 2022 through May 15, 2022 The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave., NYC When Hans Holbein the Younger emerged on the competitive European artistic scene in 1515, portraiture had only recently become fashionable among wealthy patrons outside royal and aristocratic circles. He created portraits for a wide range of patrons, including scholars, statesmen, and courtiers, in Switzerland and England. A versatile artist with exceptional skills as a draftsman and painter, Holbein rendered the physical appearance of a variety of sitters with great precision, while his ingenious compositions conveyed their values and ideals. This exhibition features Holbein’s most sophisticated drawn and painted portraits, enlivened by inscriptions, letters, books, animals, and jewels chosen in collaboration with his sitters. These likenesses, along with his designs for emblems, ornaments, and woodcuts, illuminate Holbein’s visual and intellectual contributions to the practice of constructing an enduring personal identity—as essential in Renaissance Europe as it is today. C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98-1543), Mary, Lady Guildford, 1527. Oil on panel, 34¼ x 27 ⁄ inches. Saint Louis Art Museum; Museum Purchase (EX.2021.1.73). Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98-1543), Bonifacius Amerbach, 1519. Mixed technique on panel, 11¾ x 11⅛ inches. Kunstmuseum Basel, Amerbach-Kabinett (EX.2021.1.59)