Download The Ambassadors Holbein Skull Background. Hans holbein the younger (1533) jean de dinteville and georges de selve ('the ambassadors'. Nother skull is hiding in the band of jean de dinteville's cap (see pictures to the left and right).

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Hans holbein the younger, double portrait of jean de dinteville and georges de selve, known as the ambassadors (1533). The ambassadors is an oil on oak painting by hans holbein. It's one of the most famous uses of anamorphosis.

This is hardly what you would expect to see on an ambassador in dinteville and holbein must have known each other, since they both lived at the english court.

In the syntax of the painting, human mortality the appearance of both a skull and a crucifix in the ambassadors recalls images of st. Holbein the younger, the merchant georg gisze. Holbein used a grid system to graphically project the image of a skull so that it appears entirely distorted from a frontal perspective, but becomes perfectly proportional when. To start with, the painting memorializes jean de dinteville, french ambassador to.