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Holbein's Sir Thomas More (Frick Diptych) Hardcover – May 8, 2018

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Hans Holbein’s famous portrayal of Sir Thomas More is one of the artist’s greatest and most popular portraits. In the opening piece of this appealing new volume, “A Letter to Thomas More, Knight”, award-winning author Hilary Mantel vividly imagines the background to the creation of this extraordinary portrait, giving it both historical perspective and immediacy. An insightful, scholarly essay by Xavier Salomon grounds it in the art-historical world.

Hans Holbein (1497/98–1543) painted Sir Thomas More in 1527, having been a guest in More’s house when he first arrived in England. He brilliantly renders his sitter’s rich fabrics and unshaven face with sympathy and perception.

This beautiful book will become both a useful reference for all those interested in Tudor history and art history, and a perfect gift.

Each book in the new Frick Diptych Series pairs masterworks from the Frick with critical and literary essays. This is the first volume in the series.

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Hilary Mantel is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second for the 2012 novel Bring Up the Bodies, the second installment of the Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first woman to receive the award twice. The third instalment to the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, is in progress.

Xavier F. Salomon is Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection. Previously, he was curator in the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and, before that, the Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Salomon received his Ph.D. on the patronage of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini from the Courtauld Institute of Art.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ GILES (May 8, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 56 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1907804919
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1907804915
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
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M. Sweeney
5.0 out of 5 stars Short essay by Mantel opens Salomon's well-done study on Holbein's painting of Sir Thomas More in the Frick.
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2018
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If you are eager for **the next book by Hilary Mantel!**, this is probably not what you think it is.

The first in a series of publications by the Frick Collection, each focusing on a masterwork from their collection, it is a slim but nicely presented hardback that opens with a 7-page essay by Mantel, and then continues to the art curator's scholarly study of the Holbein painting of Sir Thomas More in the Frick Collection. The primary focus of the book is thus this painting. and Mantel's is a short foreword on More himself.

The study of the painting is quite well-done, with many good reproductions of both the More portrait, numerous other paintings and drawings by Holbein and other contemporary portraits by both Holbein and others. It is very good value for the number of illustrations and focus.

. This initial book is on the famous portrait of Sir Thomas More, painted by Hans Holbein, and features a short intro by Hilary Mantel and then Frick curator Xavier F. Salomon's study of the painting itself (Unfortunately for Wolf Hall fans, the diptych in the series refers to the conservation between the two writers, not that of the two Holbeins in the Frick of Sir Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell.)

Future publications in the series focus on Johannes Vermeer’s " Mistress and Maid" (curator by Peggy Iacono and director/writer/producer James Ivory), and on a pair of porcelain and gilt-bronze candlesticks by Pierre Gouthière (curator Charlotte Vignon and Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes).
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Jack E. Holt, III
5.0 out of 5 stars Richly illustrated with Holbein’s sketches and works
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2019
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This is an elegant, well-illustrated little book. It begins with the painting in question. Then, there is a short “letter” –– or rumination, if you will –– by Hilary Mantel about Sir Thomas More, the man of letters and controversy. Do not expect a hagiography. Nor should you expect a plot or the usual ficitonal devices. The letter is thought-provoking in very many ways, but it is not in the same genre as Ms. Mantel’s fiction. It's more of a speculative essay.

Fortunately, the book also contains a lengthy essay by Xavier Salomon which explains the link between Thomas More, as an intellectual in England, and Holbein’s mentor Desiderius Erasmus. That understanding is critical to see why Holbein came to paint the More family

In clear text, Mr. Solomon goes through the history of More’s relationship to Erasmus, Holbein’s early development as an artist in Switzerland and the development of the famous portrait of More as well as a much larger canvas depicting More’s family which was destroyed in a fire. I felt the essay was a superior product, although it was necessarily brief and took the form of a lengthy discussion of the history and provenance of the work .

I thought it was a strong beginning to the series and I’m looking forward to future volumes.
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Nelson de Jesus
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2018
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Great way to find an in depth appreciation of the work.
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Ryan Stuhr
2.0 out of 5 stars not really a Mantel book
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2018
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Be sure you know it's a short book about an artwork, the part by Hilary Mantel is extremely short at the beginning... so it's not really any kind of "Hilary Mantel book" which was the false assumption we made in purchasing it. My bad, I guess.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A good buy.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2019
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Excellent production and a very enjoyable read.
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RobW
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully produced and illustrated combining and essay from Hilary Mantel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2018
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Beautifully produced and illustrated combining and essay from Hilary Mantel, the historian who wrote "Wolf Hall" and Xavier F. Salomon of the Frick Museum .

Matel's essay is short and in the form of a letter to- she REALLY doesn't like Thomas More but it's a very penetrating attempt to get inside a very complex man.

Salomoin's essay is much longer and discusses the history of the paining and it's place in Holbein's career - really superbly written & illustrated

This is the first of what (hopefully) will be a series of similar collaborative efforts on teh great paintings in the Frick Collection - I can't wait for the next one
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