Paintings and painters of the renaissance England

• The transition from Gothic to a classic Renaissance style was slow

in England.

• Religious art of every kind had declined drastically by 1540, with the dissolution of the monasteries

and the break with Rome

Hans Holbein

• 1497 Augsburg – 1543 London

Religious works

Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb

Great Dance of the Death

Dance of the Death Alphabet

Portraits

Erasmus

Christina of Denmark

Ambassadors

Anne of Cleves

Miniatures

Catherine Howard

Margaret More

Designs

Nicholas Hilliard

• 1547 England – 1619 London

Portraits

Pelikan

Phoenix

Miniatures

Portrait of a Young Man Among Roses

Christopher Hatton

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