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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger: Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach

🖼 Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach, 1519
Oil on pinewood
29 × 27 cm
Basel, Switzerland

Precise brushwork captures a scholarly humanist in three-quarter view, his keen gaze and furred robe suggesting intellectual authority and wealth. Holbein's meticulous Northern technique established him as Europe's finest portrait painter, influencing royal courts for generations.

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