Holbein the '16th-century Hebdo': artist's woodcuts are dangerous political satire

Cambridge academic Ulinka Rublack’s new book claims the artist best known as a painter of the Tudor heirarchy had earlier used art to criticise the powerful

The 16th-century artist Hans Holbein the Younger’s series of tiny woodcuts, The Dance of Death, should be viewed as dangerous satire and an early form of political cartoon, according to a Cambridge academic.

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