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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. Hans Holbein the Younger - Wikipedia

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   Hans Holbein the Younger (UK: / ˈ h ɒ l b aɪ n / HOL-byne, [2] US: / ˈ h oʊ l b aɪ n, ˈ h ɔː l-/ HOHL-byne, HAWL-; [3] [4] [5] German: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; c. 1497 [6] – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. [7]

5. 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]

6. File:Holbein il giovane, gli ambasciatori, 1533, 03.jpg

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   Art UK artwork ID: jean-de-dinteville-and-georges-de-selve-the-ambassadors-114631 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , p. 167 L'Histoire , pp. 76−77

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9. An Allegory of the Old and New Testaments - Wikipedia

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   The two halves chosen by Holbein correspond to Protestant interpretations of the Bible, which saw the Old Testament as describing a time of sin and punishment compared to the New Testament showing the way to salvation, [7] with Christ and his Evangelists contained as a mystery in the Old Testament and revealed in the New.