The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1533
Why it's great
Two richly dressed men stand beside a table of globes and instruments, and at their feet is a strange, stretched shape that turns into a skull when you look at it from the side. Hans Holbein the Younger painted it in 1533.
Where to see it
📍 National GalleryCity of Westminster, United Kingdom
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Hans Holbein the Younger was a German painter born in Augsburg in about 1497. He worked in Basel and then in London, where he became court painter to King Henry VIII and painted portraits that made the Tudors famous. He died in London in 1543, probably of the plague.
