Product Description: By the first half of the sixteenth century, German stained glass had reached astonishing heights of artistic and conceptual sophistication. Although often made for churches, not all stained glass of this period was religious; subject matter included landscapes, genre scenes, and heraldic imagery, as well as Biblical scenes...read more

Product Description: One of the greatest artists of sixteenth-century Europe, Hans Holbein the younger earned high acclaim for his work both in the city of Basel and in England for Henry VIII and other patrons. This book is the first to explore the full range of the artist’s English body of work as well as the relation of this work to the visual and material culture of Tudor England...read more

Product Description: This beautiful volume, companion to the earlier, highly regarded Giotto to Dürer, is a guide to the sixteenth-century paintings of London’s National Gallery. It examines the finest works of such artists as Holbein, Raphael, Cranach, Titian, Gossaert, and Bronzino and provides fascinating insights into the individual masterpieces and their makers...read more

Product Description: Focusing on the outstanding sixteenth-century European paintings in the National Gallery, London, Durer to Veronese examines the finest works of such artists as Holbein, Raphael, Cranach, Titian and Bronzino. The authors look closely at a variety of types of painting as well as frescoes, drawings and prints...read more

(view table of contents)

Product Description: A study of Holbein's portrait entitled "The Ambassadors". It offers a technical account of the painting and sets it in the context of the religious and political crisis in Europe in 1533, investigating the political fortunes and artistic patronage of the Dinteville family who commissioned it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Victorian, John Henry Newman, found himself at the centre of controversy. As an Anglican don and a leader of the Oxford Movement he wrestled with the problems of the relationship between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches which are still making news headlines today...read more

Shows selected paintings from the National Portrait Galley, including portraits of politicians, artists, actors, actresses, kings, queens, and the British nobility