Franny Moyle:  Hans Holbein – The King’s Painter

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Book of the Week on Radio Four and praised by The Times as being like ‘Wolf Hall but with pictures’ Franny Moyle’s biography of Henry VIII’s painter, Hans Holbein, was one of the literary highlights of 2021/2022.

Franny will talk further about Holbein’s defining portraits of the Tudor Court; how he successfully negotiated the dangerous politics of Henry’s quixotic reign unlike so many of his famous sitters, and to what extent the myth of Henry has been perpetuated by his powerful, symbolic work. With the opportunity to look closely at some of the most fascinating portraits in the history of Art and engage in discussion with the author, this talk is for history and art lovers alike.