The boys "Prosy" and "Hanns Holbain", drawn by their father, Hans Holbein the Elder; at the top the date ISll, near to Hans a note of his age (14) j a similar note by the side of the elder brother is no longer legible. Silverpoint drawing in the Royal Print Cabinet, Berlin. I-IANS I-OLBEIN. IT is usual to name Dl'Lrer and Holbein together in speaking of German Renaissance art of the at its zenith. But it would be wrong to attempt an immediate comparison of the two great masters with one another. The difference in age between them, more than a quarter of a century, is enough in itself to preclude this. It is a difference which counts for very much at a time so full of vigorous, stirring life as was the century of transition from the lIiddle Ages to modern times. Then, too, the greatness of the two masters lies in essentially different spheres. Di'trer's imagination had a creative force to which no other German painter has ever attained. In the gift of invention. About the Publisher...

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