14+ The Ambassadors Hans Holbein Skull Pics. Hans holbein the younger (c. Hans holbein's painting, the ambassadors, is one of the star attractions in london's national gallery and the writer, martyn wade, has taken a peek behind the painting to find an imaginative solution to the enigma that surrounds it.

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To start with, the painting memorializes jean de dinteville, french ambassador to. It was created in the tudor period in the same year elizabeth i was born. Holbein has very cleverly hidden the image of a skull on the front of his painting.

Hans holbein the younger (born c.

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 the ambassadors' most important deathly hint is the unmissable anamorphic skull which stretches across the painting's bottom centre. The ambassadors broke from holbein's established style. It was created in the tudor period in the same year elizabeth i was born. We know that he was working on it in 1533 as he has dated it beneath his.