File:Holbein_portrait.png
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Original file (1,030 × 678 pixels, file size: 1.22 MB, MIME type: image/png)
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
Hans Holbein the Elder: Ambrosius and Hans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title |
Ambrosius and Hans label QS:Len,"Ambrosius and Hans"
label QS:Lde,"Ambrosius und Hans" |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type | drawing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
Metal Point In medieval times, metal point was used as the primary permanent mark-making tool for both artists and scribes. Progenitor of the modern pencil, metal point was championed over the stylus for its ability to render precise compositions on paper, parchment or just about any other prepared support. Normally, creating a chalk like substance from baked chicken bones ground into dust and then mixed with water would prepare the support for drawing and writing. Nowadays, modern artists use a chalk based gauche or clay board that can be easily purchased through art stores around the world. The most common metals that were used for transcribing marks were lead, silver, copper, gold, and silver. Silver point was the most common choice because it is the most suited to permanent drawing, its stroke adhering with permanence. Although each mark is enduring, it is interesting to note that as time passes the different metals, (especially gold, silver and copper) begin to tarnish and oxidize making the mark become richer over the years. Other notable artists that have used metal point successfully in their practice are Leonardo da Vinci, Jan van Eyck and Hubert van Eyck, and Albrecht Dürer. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 1511 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | ink on paper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q555946
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
KdZ 2507 (Kupferstichkabinett Berlin) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source |
This file is lacking source information.
Please edit this file's description and provide a source. |
Licensing
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 15:59, 15 June 2006 | 1,030 × 678 (1.22 MB) | Carlbaratta | Ambrosius and Hans Holbein 1511 Silverpoint on white-coated paper, 10.3 x 15.5 cm Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin Metal Point In medieval times, metal point was used as the primary permanent mark-making tool for both artists and scribes. |
File usage
Global file usage
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on arz.wikipedia.org
- Usage on be.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ca.wikipedia.org
- Usage on cs.wikipedia.org
- Usage on el.wikipedia.org
- Usage on es.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fi.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fy.wikipedia.org
- Usage on it.wikipedia.org
- Usage on nn.wikipedia.org
- Usage on no.wikipedia.org
- Usage on pl.wikipedia.org
- Usage on pt.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ru.wikipedia.org
- Usage on sh.wikipedia.org
- Usage on sr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on www.wikidata.org