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Author North, John David.

Title The Ambassadors' secret : Holbein and the world of the Renaissance / John North
Edition Revised edition
Published London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2002

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Description xix, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents I. The Painter and his World -- 1. Portrayal -- 2. Hans Holbein -- 3. The Two Ambassadors -- 4. Nicolaus Kratzer -- II. The Painting -- 5. Strange Devices -- 6. Instruments for the Heavens -- 7. The Mundane Level -- 8. The Distorted Skull -- 9. From Apelles to an Abbey Pavement -- 10. Hints of Astrology -- III. The Meaning -- 11. Shadow and Truth -- 12. Touched by the Occult? -- 13. Air on a Broken String -- 14. Theologies of the Cross -- 15. Symbols of the Millennium -- 16. On Painters and Authors -- 17. Apelles and Clio -- App. 1. Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ -- App. 2. The Compound Solar Instrument -- App. 3. Rabanus Maurus and Solomon's Throne -- App. 4. Holbein and Chaucer Compared
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-332) and index
Subject Dinteville, Jean de, 1504-1555 -- Portraits.
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543. Ambassadors.
Selve, George de, 1508-1541 -- Portraits.
Portrait painting, Renaissance.
Genre/Form Portraits.
LC no. 2002190232
ISBN 1852853301 alkaline paper