Anyone whose happiest hours as a six-year-old were spent constructing an Airfix model of Henry VIII - they did kits of historical figures, once, as well as planes and tanks - is indebted to Hans Holbein. For what they were piecing together from little bits of plastic, and then ...
The scenes of this play became popular subjects for several German engravers, including Bernt Notke and Hans Holbein. The prints of these artists showed skeletons dancing among persons from all walks of life -- a lesson that no one, not even royalty, could escape death. In the modern era,...