. A short history of art . Henrywas proposing to marry. The picture is now in the Na-tional Gallery. On one of these visits abroad the artistarranged with the publisher Trechsel, in Lyons, to issuethe full set of his wood engravings of Death, wrongly knownas the Dance of Death. Holbein died in London in 1543, a victim, as it is sup-posed, of the plague. His high rank in art is chiefly basedupon his portraits, in which he extenuated nothing nor setdown aught in malice, but preserved an extraordinaryfidelity to nature, while elevating the personality of his sit-ter by the grave dignity of his ar
. A short history of art . Henrywas proposing to marry. The picture is now in the Na-tional Gallery. On one of these visits abroad the artistarranged with the publisher Trechsel, in Lyons, to issuethe full set of his wood engravings of Death, wrongly knownas the Dance of Death. Holbein died in London in 1543, a victim, as it is sup-posed, of the plague. His high rank in art is chiefly basedupon his portraits, in which he extenuated nothing nor setdown aught in malice, but preserved an extraordinaryfidelity to nature, while elevating the personality of his sit-ter by the grave dignity of his art. Nor was it only inoil painting that he excelled as a portraitist. His seriesof portrait-drawings, preserved in Windsor Castle, areamong the finest character studies and examples of tech-nical beauty that exist. The following artists are known as the Little Masters,from the small size of the prints they produced:— Heinrich Aldegrever (1502-1562) was an eminent en-graver as well as a painter. He was a pupil of Albrecht. NATIONAL GALLERY THE AMBASSADORSTwo highly significant personalities with a suggestion of the bond ofintellect and task which waits them.
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