Renaissance Quarterly, March 22nd, 2006
Susan Foister. Holbein and England.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 308 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-300-10280-1.
Susan Foister's new book attempts to prune a dense thicket of misunderstanding that has accumulated around a central figure of Renaissance art. Articulate and diplomatic, its author is more inclined to speak broadly of ill-founded ideas than to cite particular works chapter-and-verse. (The strategy is admirable: much of the tangle comprises a quite incredible mass of gibberish. And though such writing is, as Folly might say, a happier ve...
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