Holbeinian
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[edit]Holbeinian (comparative more Holbeinian, superlative most Holbeinian)
- (art) In the style of Hans Holbein the younger.
- 2000, Siegbert Salomon Prawer, W.M. Thackeray's European Sketch Books, →ISBN, page 127:
- Change Thackeray's spirited devil into a dancing skeleton with an answering grin, and you have a picture that would fit into a medieval, or Holbeinian, Dance of Death.
- 2006, Seth Lerer, Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII, →ISBN, page 98:
- His letters to Anne translate social codes of French diplomacy, Holbeinian portraiture, and Erasmian epistolary friendship into performances of personal desire.
- 2010, Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet, →ISBN:
- Mercator replaced Ziegler's stiff, artificial rivers and lakes with fluid, Holbeinian waters, while the Bavarian's sea - so tormented and heavily worked that it always threatened to inundate the land -- was substituted by patches of placid hatching cruised by ships and improbable fish.
- (mathematics) Including every edge exactly once and where, for all x and y, the edges (x,y) and (y,x) have opposite parities.
- a Holbeinian circuit