Discuss the change in painting style and emphasis from the works of Holbein to those created during Elizabeth’s reign.
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Hans Holbein was renowned for the level of realism in his figures and presence of minute details in his paintings (Revel Asset: Closer Look: Holbein’s The Ambassadors; Figures 19.3, 19.4, and 19.5). Each portrait conveyed the sitter’s status and captured something of the sitter’s identity. The English taste for this genre of painting can be understood as an expression of the culture’s general humanist emphasis on individualism. Portraits created during the Elizabethan reign (Figures 19.7 and 19.8) emphasize decorative patterning over physical form, reflecting the English taste for intricate, elaborately designed poetic forms. In the portraits of Elizabeth shown in this chapter, the queen appears flattened and two-dimensional, almost bodiless, as do the dress details such as lace, ermine, and jewels.
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