Chapter II: Holbein Basiliensis (1519-1526)

_Holbein Basiliensis_--Enters the Painters' Guild--Bonifacius
Amerbach and his portrait--The Last Supper and its Judas--The so-called
"Fountain of Life" at Lisbon--Genius for design and symbolism in
architecture--Versatility, humour, fighting scenes--Holbein becomes a
citizen and marries--Basel in 1519--Froben's circle--Tremendous events
and issues of the time--Holbein's religious works--The Nativity and
Adoration at Freiburg--Hans Oberriedt--The Basel Passion in eight
panels--Passion Drawings--Christ in the tomb--Christ and Mary Magdalen
at the door of the sepulchre--Rathaus wall-paintings--Birth of
Holbein's eldest child--The Solothurn Madonna: its discovery and
rescue--Holbein's wife and her portraits--Suggested solutions of
some biographical enigmas--Title pages--Portraits of Erasmus--Journey
to France, probably to Lyons and Avignon--Publishers and pictures of
the so-called "Dance of Death"--Dorothea Offenburg as Venus and Laïs
Corinthiaca--Triumph of the Protestant party--Holbein decides to
leave Basel for a time--The Meyer-Madonna of Darmstadt and Dresden,
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