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Title: Hans Holbein the younger
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chamberlain, Arthur Bensley
Subjects: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Italian influence, recalling similar studies by Raphael andLeonardo. Dr. Ganz places it among the work of Holbeins secondEnglish period. Holbein made use of the Swiss landsknechte for other purposes thanthat of painted windows. One or two of his most masterly drawingsdepict incidents in the lives of these men, whose picturesque dressand gay and manly bearing made a strong appeal to him. The finestand most important of them is the large study in the Basel Galleryrepresenting a fierce conflict between two considerable bodies ofwarriors (PL 53) .3 It depicts the contemporary methods of warfare with 1 Woltmann, 104. Reproduced by Ganz, Hdz. Schwz. Mstr., ii. 36, and in Hdz. von H. H.don Jung., PI. 28 ; Knackfuss, fig. 68. 2 And the Lachner glass design. See Appendix (B). 3 Woltmann, 63. Reproduced by Ganz, Hdz. Schwz. Mstr., i. 10 ; Knackfuss, fig. 69. u CO10 WH WH U w CO Q WH H W pq o I—< ^3 J .S ►j s < .-« O *»4 ^•4 <Z) § a < pq 9)
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A FIGHT OF LANDSKNECHTE 161 the utmost vivacity and close adherence to truth. It is, according toDr. Ganz, a work of Holbeins last residence in Basel, probably madejust before his return to England in 1532. In the foreground of thefight two men are at close quarters, one of whom, with sword whirlingover his head, grips the hair of his opponent, who is striking at histhroat with a long dagger. On either side of them two soldiers areforcing a space round them with enormous pikes, while behind is agreat crowd of shouting, panting, and struggling men, whose lances,dashed in with a few hasty strokes, stand out against the sky withan extraordinary effect both of number and movement. In the hottestpart of the fight one combatant uplifts a great double-handed sword,while another protects his face with his raised drum. Beneath theirfeet are many trampled bodies and shattered weapons. The com-position is a very fine one, and the draughtsmanship of extraordinaryvigour and vitality. One can almos

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