View The Ambassadors Holbein Skull Pics. Nother skull is hiding in the band of jean de dinteville's cap (see pictures to the left and right). The ambassadors (1533) is a painting by hans holbein the younger.

Hans holbein the younger's the ambassadors of 1533 is well known for its anamorphic image of a skull in the foreground, but upon close perusal, the objects on the table between the two subjects prove just as fascinating. A huge, distorted skull appears like a slash across hans holbein the younger's 1533 the ambassadors, and it's only when viewed from an angle that the death's head emerges from the painting in three dimensions. Hans holbein's painting, the ambassadors, is one of the star attractions in london's national gallery and the writer, martyn wade, has taken a peek behind the jean de dinteville and georges de selve are the two ambassadors.

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Hans holbein's painting, the ambassadors, is one of the star attractions in london's national gallery and the writer, martyn wade, has taken a peek behind the jean de dinteville and georges de selve are the two ambassadors. Hans holbein the younger, double portrait of jean de dinteville and georges de selve, known as the ambassadors (1533). The ambassadors (1533) is a painting by hans holbein the younger. But a keen eye will note that one of its strings is snapped, creating a visual representation a skull might seem like an ominous sign to place between two young gentlemen, who were draped in luxury, but dinteville, who commissioned the.