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14 May

2022

One More Day….

Posted by Stuart Chessman 

….to see the Holbein exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library (it closes Sunday, May 15). Although the painting probably of the greatest interest to Catholics – the portrait of Thomas More (above) – can always be seen at the Frick Collection here in New York. The exhibition also has on display, however, copies of More’s Utopia and Henry VIII’s Defense of the Seven Sacraments against Martin Luther. Thomas More provided some ghost writing assistance to King Henry for the latter.

The exhibition explicitly focuses on the portraits of Holbein – for which he is best known. But of course several of his very greatest works are religious (not exhibited here) – like the Darmstadt Madonna or the The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (which so impressed Dostoevsky). And this exhibition does display several versions of Holbein’s Dance of Death showing that end that comes to all of us – including priests, bishops and popes…

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