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Summary
Hans Holbein the Younger: Sir Brian Tuke
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Sir Brian Tuke  |
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painting |
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portrait |
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Brian Tuke |
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| Date | circa 1533–35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on panel |
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| Dimensions |
height: 49.1 cm (19.3 in) ; width: 38.5 cm (15.1 in) |
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top in gold: BRIANVS TVKE, MILES. // AN° ETATIS SVÆ, LVII
[Brian Tuke, Knight // at the age of 57]
center in gold [. DROIT ET // AVANT .] [Upright and Forward] the sitter's motto INRI
[Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudæorum] [Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews]at top of cross bottom left [NVNQVID NON PAVCITAS DIERVM / MEORVM FINIETVR BREVI?] [Are not the days of my life few?] on folded paper |
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| Notes |
English: The background was formerly blue smalt but has turned brown. Sir Brian Tuke (c. 1475–1547) was Henry VIII's Master of the Posts from 1517 and Treasurer of the Chamber from 1528. He was also a scholar, who edited an edition of Chaucer with a title-page after Holbein, and a collector of paintings. At the time Holbein painted him, Tuke had been ill, and the folded paper refers to the brevity of life ("Will my days not find their end very shortly"), evoking the patience of Job. Tuke's crucifix, showing the Five Wounds of Christ, is inscribed "INRI", a formula intended to ward off death. References
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| Source/Photographer | Foister, Susan (2006). Holbein in England, London: Tate. ISBN 1854376454, p. 131. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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