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Hans Holbein: The Ambassador
The Ambassador Painting

The Ambassador painting by Hans Holbein is a very popular painting from its time, the Renaissance. This time period is shown by a certain symbol that Hans liked to use in his paintings, the skull. He would place it at the bottom of his paintings as a symbol that this art work is his. The skull is painted in anamorphic perspective, which is a style in the Renaissance period. They say this painting could have up to three meanings. Heavens, Living world, and Death (Holbein’s skull). Examiners of the painting believe it could have been made, with intention to be placed on a stairwell. This would allow the person walking up the stairs to be startled by the skull in the picture.

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