Knihobot

Kate Heard

    Maria Sibylla Merians Schmetterlinge
    Holbein at the Tudor Court
    • A collection of portraits made during Hans Holbein’s time as the leading artist at the court of Henry VIII. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) first went to England in 1526, and by 1535 he was King’s Painter to Henry VIII. Holbein at the Tudor Court focuses on the internationally significant collection of portraits by Holbein from that period that is part of the Royal Collection. Along with beautiful reproductions of Holbein’s drawings, miniatures, and paintings, the book offers an introductory essay as the artist of the Tudor court in England, as well as a series of entries on individual works. It delivers insights about the portraits and their subjects, and it also brings in voices from the period, as found in letters, poems, administrative records, and diplomatic accounts, to bring the world of the sixteenth-century English court to life. 

      Holbein at the Tudor Court
    • Dieses Buch schildert das Leben von Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 bis 1717), deren Bildtafeln aus Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts von König Georg III. erworben wurden und die heute ein Teil der Königlichen Sammlung sind. Es handelt sich um Luxus-Versionen der Bilder, die teils gedruckt, teils handgemalt auf Pergament von der Künstlerin selbst hergestellt worden sind. Über 300 Jahre nach ihrer Entstehung lassen diese unglaublich präzisen und brillanten Bilder eine Frau hochleben, deren Kunst und Werdegang einzigartig sein dürften.

      Maria Sibylla Merians Schmetterlinge