Imagines mortis,
Lugduni, Sub Scuto Coloniensi Excudebat Joannes Frellonius 1547.

"Painter; best known for his portraits and mural paintings. He took part in negotiations for the marriage of Henry VIII to Christina of Denmark and painted her portrait. He studied at Lucerne and entertained at Basle. In the famous series illustrating The Dance of Death Holbein designed the images and Lutzelberger cut them between 1523 and 1526. These designs reveal Holbein as one of the leading agents in the spread of the reformed doctrines, to which the humanist culture of the Basle scholars had given notable impetus. The chief of these, Erasmus may be ranked among Holbein's patrons. . He designed marginal illustrations in Erasmus's Encomium Moriae and painted his portait on three different ocassions. He died of the plague in London" (Dictionary of National Biography).

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