Folly_Steps_Down_from_the_Pulpit,_marginal_drawing_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg
Summary
Description Folly Steps Down from the Pulpit, marginal drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg |
English:
Folly Steps Down From the Pulpit
, pen and ink marginal drawing in a copy of
The Praise of Folly
by
Desiderius Erasmus
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This is the last of 82 marginal drawings that include the first works of Holbein to survive intact. He and his brother, Ambrosius , drew them in the copy of The Praise of Folly owned by classical scholar Oswald Myconius , who planned to show the result to the author, his friend Erasmus. Most of the sketches, including this one, are by Hans Holbein, whose style and left-handed hatching identify him from Ambrosius. Here the figure of Folly steps down from the pulpit at last, her arm rigid from gesturing. References
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Source | Christian Müller; Stephan Kemperdick; Maryan Ainsworth; et al , Hans Holbein the Younger: The Basel Years, 1515–1532, Munich: Prestel, 2006, ISBN 9783791335803 . | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q48319
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Figure of Folly stepping down from the pulpit at last, her arm rigid from gesturing