EditorialForeground: “Entombment, after Titian, 1559,” 2021, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Calif., on March 14, 2023. Background: “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (Babacar Mané),” 2021, nods to Hans Holbein the Younger. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialThe notebook of Vanessa Braganza, a Ph.D. student in English, shows how she decoded a cipher pendant by Hans Holbein that entangled the names Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England, June 22, 2022. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)