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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.
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]
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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 ...
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 ]