Holbein’s “Ambassadors”: Making and Meaning
Susan Foister
112 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0300073267
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Language: English
Publish: February 17, 1998
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.