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  • Holbein - realistic painter or not? Holbein's portaits seem very realistic to me: he doesn't make all his sitters look gorgeous and adds a bit of personnality to each portrait. At a time were flattery and symbolism were predominent in court portraits - they were mainly political - Holbein's approach is a rarity. He seems however to have gone wrong once...Annne of Cleves. Maybe that proves that even the most realistic portrait is only a fixed image and cannot capture the essence of the sitter. Or does this misadventure prove that Holbein was not a realistic painter after all? What do you think?
    Thread location: Discussion Forum
    Keyword tags: art,  court artists,  court portrait,  Holbein,  portrait,  realism in art 
    Posted: Sep 3 2008, 6:24 AM EDT by MadameDeMerteuil
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