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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 ...
Reino Unido. [ editar datos en Wikidata] 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 ...
26 de mar. de 2023 · 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 ...
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 ...
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).
23 de jun. de 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.
Analysis of The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein. Hans Holbein the Younger was unquestionably one of the best portrait artists of the German Renaissance, and - along with such artists as Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) - helped to enrich late German Gothic art (exemplified by the work of Matthias Grunewald) with the more progressive features of the ...
