Hans Holbein: Capturing Character

At First Things magazine, Jane Coombs writes about the art of Hans Holbein. I used Holbein’s portraits of St. Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell to illustrate John J. Reilly’s review of Peter Ackroyd’s The Life of Thomas More because Holbein’s portraits so vividly capture the personalities of his subjects. Holbein had the opportunity to paint many of the most famous people of his tumultuous times.