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  1. Ambrosius Holbein (c. 1494 – c. 1519) was a German and later a Swiss artist in painting, drawing, and printmaking. He was the elder brother, by about three years, of Hans Holbein the Younger, but he appears to have died in his mid-twenties, leaving behind only a small body of work.

  2. Augsburg – city of power, money and the arts – was a centre of the bold new “Renaissance in the North”: The painter Hans Holbein the Elder (1465–1525) and his fellow artists drew on influences from both north and south and developed a distinctive visual language of their own.

  3. Ambrosius Holbein was a German and Swiss artist in painting, drawing and printmaking. He was the elder brother, by about three years, of Hans Holbein the Younger, but he appears to have died in his mid twenties leaving behind only a small body of work.

  4. Died young. Painter and designer of woodcuts and metalcuts. Augsburg probably 1494-Basel(?)1519(?). The elder son of Hans Holbein the Elder (q.v.) and brother of Hans Holbein the Younger (q.v.) with whom he is portrayed in his father's drawing ‘Ambrosius and Hans Holbein’, dated 1511, in Berlin (Kupferstichkabinett).

  5. Jul 23, 2005 · Key Points. Describes how recognition of a 'ship of teeth' led to identification of the skull, disguised as a map of Utopia, with which Ambrosius Holbein had illustrated the third edition of...

    • M Bishop
    • 2005
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  7. Woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein illustrating a 1518 edition of Thomas More’s Utopia Utopian thinking, and consequently utopian architecture, has emerged in alternating phases throughout history, always characterising great moments of cultural ferment and desire for renewal, especially during the early Renaissance, the period around the French ...

  8. Ambrosius and Hans, the sons of the artist. A personal document of the Holbein family and one whose intimacy possesses a unique attraction for us: the father, one of the great painters of his...

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