The Ambassadors
Painting by Hans Holbein the Younger
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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, after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born. Wikipedia
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The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. The Ambassadors. Artist, Hans Holbein the Younger. Year, 1533. Medium, Oil on oak.
The painting is filled with carefully rendered details, in a clear style that we have come to identify with Renaissance naturalism of the sixteenth century. The ...
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Artist Biography: Holbein was one of the most accomplished portraitists of the 16th century. He spent two periods of his life in England (1526-8 and 1532-43), ...
Mar 15, 2024 · One of the most staggeringly impressive portraits in Renaissance art, this famous painting is full of hidden meanings and fascinating ...
Sep 13, 2013 · Holbein painted “The Ambassadors” during a particularly tense period marked by rivalries between the Kings of England and France, the Roman ...
Feb 22, 2022 · Hans Holbein the Younger's The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting that simply begs to be decoded. The highly unusual Renaissance double ...
The painting is famous for containing, in the foreground, at the bottom, a spectacular anamorphic, which, from an oblique point of view, is revealed to be a ...
Hanging in the National Gallery, London, 'The Ambassadors' is a painting full of clues, symbols, and mystery. At first glance, the picture celebrates two ...