Art History Conservation Work on a 16th-Century Portrait Reveals Hans Holbein’s Cheek-Chiseling Procedure. The portrait featuring a sculpted jawline is on show in Buckingham Palace.

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne.

Young Derich Born’s cheekbones were not always sharp enough to peel apples — new research reveals the 1553 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger underwent several revisions to give him a more ...

Hans Holbein the Younger; Portrait of a falconer, 1542; 24.9 x 20.4 cm. (9.8 x 8 in.) close. View to Scale ...

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker best known for his detailed and realistic portraits—indeed, he is considered one of the greatest portraitists of ...

Perhaps we cannot rule out that Holbein’s portraits were indeed commissioned with a search for character in mind. It would explain why, 500 years on, we still queue to see them.

The son of the late-medieval painter Hans Holbein the Elder, ... will wind down with the Holbein painting that the Städel is still calling Portrait of Simon George of Cornwall (around 1535-40).

Hans Holbein the Younger — the subject of an online exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City — was a painter with a mission. As the court painter to King Henry VIII of England in the ...

Young Derich Born’s cheekbones were not always sharp enough to peel apples — new research reveals the 1553 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger underwent several revisions to give him a more ...