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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. Franny Moyle speculates that Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, then Queen of England, might have commissioned it as a gift for Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador ...
13 de sept. de 2013 · 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.. To start with, the painting memorializes Jean de Dinteville, French ambassador to England, and his friend, Georges de Selve, who acted on several occasions as French ...
Who were the French ambassadors so elegantly depicted in Holbein's masterpiece and how did King Henry VIII's astronomer become involved? Find out all this and more with Susan Foister, our Deputy Director and Director of Public Engagement. Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in ...
4 de dic. de 2018 · The Ambassadors When the painting was acquired by the National Gallery in 1890, the identity of the two strident figures remained a mystery. It wasn’t until ten years later, with the publication of Mary F. S. Hervey’s book, Holbein's "Ambassadors": The Picture and the Men (1900) , that they were identified as Jean de Dinteville (left) and Georges de Selve (right).
15 de mar. de 2024 · 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. The meticulous realism of Holbein’s immaculate technique is breathtaking in itself, but virtually every object has a symbolic meaning too.
29 de oct. de 2020 · A conversation with Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker in front of Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533, oil on oak, 207 x 209.5 cm (The Nation...
Explore the National Gallery’s paintings online; Inventory number: NG1314 Full Title: Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ('The Ambassadors') Artist Dates: 1497/8 - 1543 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), portraying the nobility of the Tudor court.
