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2. The Ambassadors (Holbein) - Wikipedia

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   The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve , [ 1 ] after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period , in the same year Elizabeth I was born.

3. Georges de Selve - Wikipedia

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   He is the figure of the right in a picture by Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, and Jean de Dinteville is the other one, which hangs in the National Gallery, London. [2] De Selve was just 25 when Holbein painted him and he is wearing the vestments of a clergyman, who represent the interests of the Catholic Church , since he had just ...

4. Portrait of Charles de Solier, Sieur de Morette - Wikipedia

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   A design by Holbein for a cap-badge with John the Baptist survives in the British Museum. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Around his neck is a gold chain from which hangs a medallion or watchcase of openwork . The attitude , the glove on the left hand and the half-covered medallion on the chain are reminiscent of Titian ’s L'Homme au Gant in the Louvre . [ 8 ]

5. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Holbein's "The ...

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   (1) Good scan of interesting Renaissance portrait; (2) dude-- what's the deal with that freaky skull. Articles this image appears in Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors (Holbein), Ushak carpet, Anamorphosis, Georges de Selve Creator Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1497-1543. Support as nominator Spikebrennan 19:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

6. Edgar Samuel - Wikipedia

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   He studied for a BA (Hons) and an M Phil. [3] In the early 1960s, using both his historical and optical skills, he developed a unique theory about the meaning of the skull in Holbein's painting The Ambassadors, [1] in which he conjectured that it is designed to be viewed face on, through a simple, straight blown glass tube, acting as a lens. [4]

7. Portrait of a Young Merchant - Wikipedia

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   There is an old copy of this portrait in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia in Palermo. [9]Elements of the Vienna portrait have been copied by other artists. Portrait of an Unknown Man in the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is a pastiche: the copyist has attached the head of the portrait of Duke Antony the Good of Lorraine to the body of the Portrait of a Young ...

8. Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting - Wikipedia

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   The allusion to futility is made apparent by the inclusion of symbols like a human skull, or inscriptions quoting the biblical book of Ecclesiastes 1:2;12:8. As early as 1533, Hans Holbein's painting The Ambassadors prominently shows an anamorphic projection of a human skull. Objects in still life paintings, regardless of their allegorical ...

9. Template : Did you know nominations/The Ambassadors (Holbein)

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   The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page.