A portrait of Henry VIII of England, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger around 1539 to 1540, showing the king in aged middle life. The work is held at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome, and the supplied record is a 2017 photograph of the painting.
Two young Frenchmen stand on either side of a table crowded with instruments of learning, while a distorted skull stretches across the floor beneath them. Hans Holbein the Younger painted this double portrait in 1533, and the National Gallery reads its objects, its optical trick and its hidden crucifix as a reflection on knowledge, discord and mortality.
Hans Holbein the Younger painted the merchant Georg Gisze at his writing desk in 1532. This short tour looks at how the picture builds a professional identity through direct address, the tools of trade and a controlled, luminous realism, and it flags the limits of what a single photograph can show us.
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