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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.
The Ambassadors, oil painting on oak panel created in 1533 by German artist Hans Holbein the Younger. One of the most staggeringly impressive portraits in Renaissance art, this famous painting is full of hidden meanings and fascinating contradictions.
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Jun 23, 2022 · Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors was painted in 1533. This was a period in England’s history when Henry VIII was the ruling king. He took over the throne in 1509, which was when his father Henry VII died. A few years prior, in 1502, his brother Arthur died, and Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon, who was originally married to Arthur.
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Oct 1, 2021 · High Culture — October 1, 2021. Optical illusion: Why Hans Holbein hid a creepy skull in “The Ambassadors” The German artist painted death as it appeared in life – omnipresent and hidden in plain...
Sep 13, 2013 · Holbein painted “The Ambassadors” during a particularly tense period marked by rivalries between the Kings of England and France, the Roman Emperor, and the Pope. Furthermore, the French church was split over the question of the Reformation.
One of the greatest portrait paintings painted by Holbein during his second visit to England, was The Ambassadors, a life-sized double-portrait of the wealthy landowner Jean de Dinteville (1504–55), ambassador of the King of France, and his friend Georges de Selve, Bishop of Lavaur (1508–41).
This grand double portrait by Hans Holbein, the most accomplished portraitist of the sixteenth century, does more than show off the wealth and status of its sitters. It was painted at a time of religious upheaval in Europe – Henry VIII, King of England, would soon break with the Roman Catholic Church as the pope would not annul his marriage ...
