Holbein in England
28 September 2006  –  7 January 2007

Quiz

1. Which of Henry VIII’s wives did Holbein design this cup for?
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543) and Workshop?, Design for a Cup (1536–7), Lent by the The British Museum, London
Jane Seymour
Anne Boleyn
Catherine Parr



2. Which of these is not a Tudor courtly dance?
Pavane
Galliard
Amblade


3. What was the name of the Northern European trading group that Cyriacus Kale belonged to?

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543), Cyriacus Kale (dated 1533), Lent by the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen, Braunschweig

the Hampa
the Hansa
the Henda

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543)
Cyriacus Kale (dated 1533)
Lent by the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen, Braunschweig
Oil on panel


4. Who wrote this lyric?

Passetyme with good companye
I love, and shall until I dye;
Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
Nicolas Bourbon


5. Holbein was commissioned to produce a painting in 1540 to commemorate which guild?
The Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons
The Bakers’ Guild
The Goldsmiths’ Company


6. What date did the Dissolution of the Monasteries begin?
1536
1546
1556


7. Where was Holbein born?
Hapsburg
Augsburg
Freiburg


8. Where might the subject of this painting lived?

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543), A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, (Anne Lovell?) (about 1527)

West Ruislip
Northampton
East Harling





Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543)
A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?) (about 1527)
Lent by The National Gallery, London


9. Who said this about Holbein?
“Your painter, my dear Erasmus is a wonderful artist”
Sir Thomas More
Nicholas Bourbon
Herman von Wedigh


10. What is this a design for?

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543), Design (about 1538–40), Lent by The British Museum, London

A triumphal arch
A picture frame
A chimney piece


11. What was Jane Seymour’s motto?
Humble and Loyal
The Most Happy
Bound to Obey and Serve


12. What does the inscription on Holbein's painting of Derich Born say?


A true likeness
Add but the voice and you would wonder if his father or the painter created him
Merchant of the Trading Association


13. Who wrote the Humanist essay In Praise of Folly?
Sir Thomas More
Desiderius Erasmus
Nicholas Small


14. Who is this portrait of?

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543), Thomas Howard (about 1539), Lent by Her Majesty The Queen

The Duke of Norfolk
The Earl of Lancaster
The Prince of Wales