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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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Vol.. I., Plate 27 MINERS AT WORKDrawing in Indian ink, pen, and bistre British Museum
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SACRED PICTURES FORMERLY IN LUCERNE 81 Hegner could find no traces of them. They probably formed atriptych. M. Gauthiez suggests that these pictures were the result ofhis study of the paintings of the Lombard masters, the titles alonesuggesting a list of works by Luini.1 The last-named of these pictures, the Taking down from theCross—in which, according to Patins description, Christs bodywas on the ground, the head resting on the Virgins lap, andsurrounded by Mary Magdalene, Saint John, Nicodemus, and otherpersons, with the two thieves still on the Cross—was still in the churchin the middle of the seventeenth century. Two sketches exist, withnotes as to the colour, and an inscription stating that they were drawnin Lucerne from Holbeins altar-piece in the church of the Augustinesby C. Meyer in 1648. Dr. Ganz has recently published a copy of thispicture,2 which is in Palermo, and draws attention to the fact that itagrees in dimensions with the lost original, which was in thepossessi

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