Holbein Portrait Drawings (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

pictures are not clear but its still a great reference

Pros: Collects a large number of black-and-white plates of Holbein's portrait sketches for his paintings of Henry VIII's court.Cons: There aren't more of them.For even the least ambitious student of drawing, Holbein is a name to conjure with. His use of line and simple shapes to create powerful likeness with minimal means is unmatched by any of his contemporaries. The elegance and economy of means with which he captures likeness, often using only a few precisely-drawn shapes to create people so real you want to have coffee with them is an act of technique that has baffled and inspired students of drawing for centuries.If you are learning to draw and copying great masters is part of your training routine, you absolutely cannot go wrong with Holbein.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am amazed at his attention to facial details. Considering the time frame he did these, without a doubt he was the Norman Rockwell of the Tutor era.

Great book. The drawings are not as clear as I expected, but still good reference.

These prints are lovely

As other reviewers have noted, this is a book with sub-par reproductions of some of Holbein's more famous pictures. Since I'd read the reviews and knew this going in, and since I found it for a low price as a used book, I decided to add it to my Tudor-history collection anyway.I'm glad I bought it, but it is not at all what I've come to expect of most Dover publications. I don't understand why they didn't get appropriate permissions and put together a book of quality reproductions. I'd have asked for a refund if I had purchased this book new and for full price.You can find copies of most of Holbein's work on the internet, and many of them are high-resolution, very clear and worth the trouble of searching them out. If you want to have hard-copies to hand, this book will fill the bill - but find a low-priced copy, as it hasn't much value, to my mind.

I am very disappointed with the book. Holbein's drawings should be extremely delicate, but all that is lost in this book--lines aregrainy and the shading simply is mostly inaccurate, since these are all black-and-white reproductions of colored drawings. They are probably reproductions of reproductions, really. Even the pictures posted on the web look better. Not worth buying, no matter how cheap it is.Recommend: "Holbein in England". Borrowed it from a library. Well written, great pictures, just expensive.

This is a beautiful and kind of scary book of amazing portrait sketchesUnbelievable for the price; a real look into the past.

Grea!

Small in size but full of beautiful Holbein drawings - excellent.

No está bien impreso, ha sido una desilusión, se pierden todos los matices de los dibujos. No me ha gustado

過去、世界の美術全集のようなシリーズが矢継ぎ早に出版された時代がありました。でも、どういうわけかホルバインの画集が含まれたことは記憶が無い。しかしホルバインの超絶的な肖像画は、見れば見るほどため息が出る。二人の大使や数学者の肖像以外にも傑作が多数あります。アングルのデッサンは、写真を上回るような、一瞬の情景を写し取ることにずば抜けて優れていたと思うが、ホルバインの肖像画からもそれが感じられる。その超絶的肖像画の製作方法の謎が、このデッサンの画集から読み取れる。そうか、そんな風に描いていたのか・・。鮮明とはお世辞にも言えない印刷ですが、デッサンに感動し、さまざまの情報が得られる画集です。でもこんな本、誰も買わないんだろーな・・・。五つ星を付けます！

great book