Holbein's "Ambassadors": Making and Meaning [Paperback]

Professor Susan Foister (Author), Ashok Roy (Author), Martin Wyld (Author)

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Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: National Gallery London (Feb 17 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300073267
ISBN-13: 978-0300073263
Product Dimensions: 28.1 x 22.1 x 1 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,278,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( G-I ) > Holbein, Hans

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A study of Holbein's portrait entitled "The Ambassadors". It offers a technical account of the painting and sets it in the context of the religious and political crisis in Europe in 1533, investigating the political fortunes and artistic patronage of the Dinteville family who commissioned it. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Through the perspective of the disorted skull: glimpsing the essence of diplomacy, May 29 2010

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This review is from: Holbein's Ambassadors: Making and Meaning (Paperback)

This masterly volume describes the background to Holbein's great painting, 'The Ambassadors'.

The distorted skull at the foot of the painting says so much: is the deathly distortion of words, facts and meaning at the root of diplomacy in its essential nature?

Why do the British Conservative backbenches hold the Foreign Office in incomprehending, near contempt, sometimes? Why do US Republican power-brokers joke about nuking Foggy Bottom, the seat of the State Department?

Go back to Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' and meditate on the perspective of the distorted skull which informs the artist's subject.

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