Excerpt from Hans Holbein: From Holbein Und Seine Zeit<br><br>His altar-piece at Darmstadt - better known to the world by the excellent copy at Dresden - was painted before he was thirty years of age, yet it ranks next to the work of Raphael and there can be little doubt that had the grand picture of The Family of Sir Thomas More been pre served to this time, we should have possessed a group of portraits, which, both in composition and painting, would have been of surpassing interest and of the greatest merit.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.