Holbein’s candid portrait drawings deliver ... Paired here, in two cases, are the preparatory drawing and its finished painting. The study for “William Reskimer” (c. 1536-39) is relatively ...

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger is one of those paintings that we know so well we tend to forget to look closer.

Holbein lived and worked during the hottest days of the Protestant Reformation, painting Tudor luminaries both at the peak and not long before they lost their heads. There’s never been a Holbein ...