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The article focuses on the exhibition on art. The statistics of the Eighth International attendance became increasingly eloquent. It grew to be the best picture mart in Europe, just as the old exhibitions ceased to sell. Where many committees from many nations select the exhibitions, where warring factions practice their pet theories of hanging and decoration side by side, there can at least be no monotony. The long series of international galleries was becoming oppressive; even more so the "regional halls" where the Italian artists were exhibited side by side for no better reason than that they were inscribed in the same tax lists.

Examines the works of 16th century European artist Hans Holbein. Background of Holbein; Details of his career; Description of some of the portrait works of Holbein; Discussion of his style; Inferences on the art philosophy of Holbein.