yr8_Holbein

=Holbien by Sarah-Catherine Rodan=

Here are a few details of my life:
I was born in Augsburg, Bavaria a rich merchant city with close trading relations with Italy. I soon moved to Basle, a renowned center of the New Learning. I died in October 17th 1453 and I was born around the 1460’s and a document attached to it, dated November 29th, describes me as I am dead. I learned painting by my father Hans Holbein the Elder. Later I went with my brother Ambrosius Holbein to Basel where I met many scholars, among them the Dutch humanist Erasmus. I was asked by Erasmus to illustrate his satires. I also illustrated other books, and contributed to Martin Luther's translation of the Bible. Like my father, I designed stained glass windows and painted portraits of people.

I contributed to the renaissance in the following ways:
I made portraits of people and making metaphors through my paintings. I usually worked for the kings and queens by making portraits of their wives or their children. I made people famous in history and made them come to life in the renaissance.

I Think these contributions were practically important because:
I made the people of the renaissance come alive. People wouldn’t have been able to become historical. Without my paintings there would be some history that we wouldn’t have known now and that would have led to more history. Without my portraits we wouldn’t have been able to find history i put in hiden messages in my paintings. Because of me we know now what all the historical people looked like. If they hadn’t of been painted then they wouldn’t of been famous in history. And that then goes to the education of pupils at schools and that’s what makes history fun. If we hadn’t of known then history would have been boring. It’s also thanks to me that people now how to make portraits of realistic people. I was the only one in my time to make realistic portraits of people. This is one of my most famous paintings. The people in the paintings are both french ambassadors. This painting is famous because it has lots of hidden messages. An example is the very thin object at the bottom is a skull.