Thomas More, whose portrait by Holbein hangs at the current exhibition at the Morgan Library, was insufficiently loyal to Henry VIII, so he was executed. James Comey did not consider any level of loyalty to Donald Trump to be something he needed to concern himself with, so he was fired. That analogy was what occurred to me while seeing the exhibit, after having just finished watching The Comey Rule on Netflix... Below, Holbein's Mary, Lady Guildford, 1527. She and her husband were among Holbein's most important patrons. Note the rosary beads wound around her hand, and the rosemary tucked into her bodice.
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