Holbein
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Beginner readers interested in Renaissance painting and Holbein
- Learners who want to practice extensive reading through original English texts on art
- Art enthusiasts who need a lightweight overview of an artist's life
Not a good fit for
- Art researchers who need high-resolution plates and professional image analysis
- Academic readers expecting a systematic art-historical theoretical framework
- Readers who struggle with English reading and need a Chinese translation
Reading tips
- While reading, search for high-resolution images of Holbein's representative works to view alongside the text
- Sort out the timeline of his life chapter by chapter, distinguishing biographical narrative from commentary on works
- Record proper nouns when encountered, and after finishing, look up the art-historical background in a focused way
- Can be used as English extensive reading material, reading a short section each day and retelling the key points
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Samuel Levy Bensusan (1872–1958) was a British writer, art historian and chronicler of rural life, born in Deptford, London. He worked early on as a music and drama critic, and later contributed painter biographies to the "Masterpieces in Colour" series, covering artists such as Velázquez, Rubens and Murillo. In clear, concise prose he sketched each painter's life and artistic character, bringing Western painting to general readers. His interests also ranged to distant places and literary landmarks, yielding books on Morocco and on Shakespeare's homes and haunts. In later years he settled in Essex, where he devoted himself to writing about country life and dialect in a plain, gentle style. Twelve of his works are held in this collection, some classified under inspirational growth.
