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3 days ago · Holbein also portrayed various courtiers, landowners, and visitors during this time, and his most famous painting of the period was The Ambassadors. This life-sized panel portrays Jean de Dinteville , an ambassador of Francis I of France in 1533, and Georges de Selve , Bishop of Lavaur who visited London the same year. [80]
2 days ago · BM: Lacan continually and insistently refers to specific major works from art history, like Holbein’s The Ambassadors and Las Meninas by Velázquez. But he was also interested in contemporary works, like those of Duchamp, Dalí and Masson. Lacan accompanied a certain number of artistic adventures, above all during the Surrealist period (he ...
5 days ago · The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein is a famous painting dating back to the Renaissance era. Experts at Smart History state that the painting was created in 1533 and depicts two men standing beside a ...
14 hours ago · Natalie Grueninger speaks with Thomas Lockley about his latest book, ‘A Gentleman from Japan”. Tune in to hear Natalie and Thomas discuss: – What is happening in England and around the world in 1588. – His protagonist, a young man from Japan named Christopher. – Relations between Japan and the major European powers in the sixteenth ...
4 days ago · On the occasion of a "running at the Tylt" on 24th March, 1619–20, invitations to be present were issued to the French and Spanish Ambassadors.
4 days ago · 19 March - 30 June 2024. The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna’s 2024 spring exhibition is devoted to three outstanding pioneers of the Renaissance north of the Alps: Hans Holbein the Elder, Hans Burgkmair, and Albrecht Dürer.
2 days ago · St. Thomas More Was the King’s Good Servant, But God’s First. Hans Holbein the Younger, “Portrait of Thomas More,” 1527 (photo: Public Domain) St. Thomas More remained fiercely loyal to his King, but even more so to the preservation of his king’s immortal soul. Kelly Marcum, June 22, 2023.
