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Title: Hans Holbein the younger
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chamberlain, Arthur Bensley
Subjects: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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REPAINTING OF RHINE GATE CLOCK 351 the year 1530, with ornamental accessories and representations of thefour seasons, a work of great beauty.1 He also painted a new portrait of Erasmus, most probably inFreiburg, for the portrait at Parma, which is one of the best of variousalmost contemporary copies, is dated 1530. The small circular picturein the Basel Gallery is very possibly the original study painted directlyfrom the sitter. These portraits and the roundel of Melanchthon inthe Provinzial Museum at Hanover, which is probably of the sameperiod, have been described in a previous chapter.2 There is only one other record to show that he received any furtheremployment from the civic authorities after the completion of theTown Hall paintings. On October 7, 1531, he was paid 17 pfund10 schilling, or fourteen gulden, for repainting the two clocks on theRhine Gate (von beden Uren am Rinthor zemalen).3 Thiscommission was for renovating the two faces of the old clock, whichwas decorated with

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