When we envision 16th-century Tudor England, it is likely the paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger that come to mind, his portraits cementing our view of Henry VIII, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Jane Seymour, and Anne of Cleves. But beyond these familiar images, Holbein was also a humanist, satirist, and political propagandist whose work was rich in layers of symbolism and allusion. Here Franny Moyle traces and analyzes the life of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation.