Holbein at Basle

How well he has done Night in his “Crucifixion”! Also he has tried to do

the Alps, putting them as background to the city, but he has not done

them as we should do them now. I think the tower on the hill behind the

city is the tower which we see on leaving Basle on the road for Lucerne,

I mean I think Holbein had this tower in his head.

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