Holbein: Henry Viii and Frick Collection

holbein: He adds that Cromwell put up with it, whereas Thomas More's image took Holbein quite a lot of adjustment to get right . The two are now locked in a duel in the Frick collection in New York, according to The Guardian. So this is far from being a buttoned-up biography of Henry VIII's chief minister. It should be Crummle . This matters more now that Cromwell is a household name, or, as Hilary Mantel has put it, an industry . There have been several biographies of him recently, but this is the one, according to the Booker-winner, we have been awaiting for 400 years . The admiration is mutual Mantel appears in Mac Culloch's introductory material as well as the main text, where he refers to a scene in her novel Wolf Hall in which Cromwell's glowering portrait is unveiled. MacCulloch is a stylish and playful writer who knows his readership and keeps his more scholarly conversations Frankly, that seems a naive reading of events to the back of the book. Anyone looking for the true story of Wolf Hall will be challenged, but also mightily rewarded. It is, at the same time, seriously heavyweight, both in terms of size more than 700 pages and archival heft. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.