Street Art superstar Shepard Fairey showed up on an episode of Portlandia. The skit finds Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein promoting Shocking Art Supplies; an alternative supply store filled with ...

Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting that simply begs to be decoded. The highly unusual Renaissance double portrait depicts two luxuriously clad Frenchmen standing on either ...

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne. As two new exhibitions ...

More than 100 works of art from King Henry VIII's court will go on show at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace later this year. The exhibition will include the largest number of works by Hans ...

He might technically be “the younger,” but he still died 500 years ago. He’s also responsible for the best painting show in New York right now. I’m speaking, of course, of Hans Holbein the Younger, ...

He cut through pretensions in his Renaissance portraits of nobles and notables, in a first-ever retrospective opening Friday at the Morgan. By Jason Farago An artistic vision isn’t worth much if there ...

Kim Kardashian is famous for her contouring make-up tricks. But it turns out the original pioneer of the technique may actually have been a 16th century artist famous for painting royals and grandees ...

Born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1497/98, Hans Holbein the Younger—the Northern Renaissance painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic artist and designer—first moved from Basel, Switzerland, to England ...

Nicholas Hilliard's miniature portrait of Henry VIII will be among the works on show More than 100 works of art from King Henry VIII's court will go on show at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace ...

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne. As two new exhibitions ...