48+ The Ambassadors Painting Holbein Images. They figured prominently in elite european homes, and often cost as much as paintings. Hans holbein the younger, a german artist and official painter to the king, brought the tudor era to life through over 100 portraits which masterfully captured the individual expressions of his subjects including thomas more, thomas cromwell, king henry, and lots of his six wives.
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This painting really shows off holbein's extraordinary ability to convey to us the space in which these two people stood. This painting is a double portrait and it includes several seemingly random objects in the background. The painting is famous for containing, in the foreground, at the bottom, a spectacular anamorphic, which, from an oblique point of view, is revealed to be a human skull. His almost square painting (2.07 m × 2.10 m) from 1533 shows the two french ambassadors at the english court, jean de dinteville and georges de selve.
