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Definition of Holbein the elder
1. Noun. German painter of religious works (1465-1524).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holbein The Elder
Literary usage of Holbein the elder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"German school ; history painter, son and pupil of Hans holbein the elder, whom
he probably assisted in his works, and with his brother, Hans the younger, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... or the three ranks of the social order ach and Hans Holbein (the Elder and
the Younger); the metropolitan see of the newly-founded province of from the ..."
3. History of Painting by Alfred Woltmann, Karl Woermann, Sidney Colvin (1887)
"These two were the sons of Hans holbein the elder, who was at the beginning of
the sixteenth century the most highly-esteemed master of Augsburg, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Holbein the Elder also excelled as a portrait painter, ... He was a son of Hans
Holbein the Elder, and was born at Augsburg, where he studied with his ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"After 1516 Hans holbein the elder appears as a defaulter in the registers of the
tax-gatherers at Augsburg; but he willingly accepts commissions abroad. ..."
6. Switzerland, and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1885)
"masters: 80-82. Ambr. Holbein; 85-101. //. Holbein the- Elder; 127-130. ...
Holbein the Elder, Death of the Virgin. H. Holbein the Younger, 7, 8. ..."
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