The Ambassadors

Hans Holbein the Younger

Painted

1533

Collection

National Gallery, London

A life-size double portrait of Jean de Dinteville, French ambassador to the court of Henry VIII (left), and his friend Georges de Selve, Bishop of Lavaur. The shelves hold a celestial globe, sundials, a terrestrial globe, a lute with a broken string and a hymn book, and the strange slanting shape on the floor becomes a skull when viewed from the side. A small crucifix is half hidden at the top left of the green curtain.

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