Tomas Moro; pintura; Hans; Holbein; Hans Holbein; Erasmo; Rotterdam; siglo XVI; Frick Gallery - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:19:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Tomas Moro; pintura; Hans; Holbein; Hans Holbein; Erasmo; Rotterdam; siglo XVI; Frick Gallery - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Sir Tomas More https://historylab.es/sir-tomas-more/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sir-tomas-more Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/sir-tomas-more/ Portrait of Thomas More by Hans Holbein

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]]> Hans Holbein, who was commissioned to paint this work, arrived in London in 1526, a year before the present work was executed. With a letter of introduction from Erasmus of Rotterdam, Holbein entered Thomas More’s circle by living near him in Chelsea. More, famous both as a scholar and humanist and author of Utopia, was a great statesman. At this time, he served Henry VIII of England as a privy councillor and later became his Chancellor in 1529. When he refused to sign the Act of Supremacy making the king the head of the Church of England, he was convicted of high treason and beheaded on 6 July 1535.

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