Franny Moyle: The King’s Painter – signing and meet the author

Celebrating the new paperback edition of Franny Moyle’s superb book on Hans Holbein.

Please join us for a book signing and to meet the author.

Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court, Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius: a humanist, satirist, political propagandist, and contributor to the history of book design as well as a religious artist and court painter.

The rich layers of symbolism and allusion that characterise his work have proved especially fascinating to scholars. Franny Moyle traces and analyses the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror.

You can preorder the book here. This new edition has been beautifully printed with careful attention to detail, brilliant production values to show the artworks discussed and the best endpapers we have ever seen. Do come along to gaze at it, get your copy signed and meet author, cultural historian and brilliant storyteller Franny Moyle.

The event is free and unticketed. And may contain snacks.