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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 ...
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 ...
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...
Los embajadores —el cuadro se llama en realidad Jean de Dinteville y Georges de Selve— es una pintura de Hans Holbein el Joven, actualmente en la National Gallery de Londres.Es una de las obras maestras del pintor y de la pintura en general.. Triplemente importante por sus resonancias históricas, por su riqueza simbólica y por su excelencia plástica, incluye un raro objeto en primer ...
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 ...
The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). The novel is a dark comedy which follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe to bring the son of his widowed fiancée back to the family business. The novel is written in the third-person, from Strether's point of view.
The Ambassadors was painted during Holbein's second stay in England (1532-43), which coincided with Henry VIII's break with Rome - over his decision to anull his marriage with Catherine of Aragon - and the formation of the English Protestant Church. As well as being painter to the king, Holbein also portrayed numerous noblemen and women ...
