David Starkey: Beyond the Portraitist – Holbein, his wordsmiths and the bigger picture. Friday 9 August at 7:30pm

We think of Holbein as the greatest portraitist of the northern Renaissance. This talk explorers another aspect of his multifaceted genius: his creation of the supreme propaganda “posters” of the Tudor dynasty. Here Holbein, the artist, worked with Richard Morison, the Latin wordsmith, to create mixed-media messages in which Morison’s words were, to contemporaries at least, as important as Holbein’s resplendent images.