The headline made me do a double-take:
Henry VIII In Wedding Dress (1540) By Hans?Holbein The Younger
I know what they meant, but of course my brain instantly jumped to a vision of Henry VIII in white satin and lace with a bridal veil.
The article is an informational one about Holbein, his painting in general and specifically his portrayal of Henry VIII. Read it here
(And while I’m on a kick of being pedantic and talking about some of my reporting pet peeves, there is one in this article. Holbein was not at the British court, he was at the English court!)
My mind did exactly the same thing at first…..
That always bugs me when people say Britain instead of England…
There’s another gaffe in the article, a reference to the “secular humanist philosophy” of the sixteenth century. Erasmus and Thomas More, among others, would have been very surprised by that description.
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