‘Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve’ (1533), also known as ‘The Ambassadors’, is one of the most iconic paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger. The canvas displays not only the double portrait of the two influential French ambassadors, but also a variety of painstakingly rendered objects alluding to contemporary culture, spirituality and politics, as well as the famous skull anamorphosis. It is part of the permanent collection at the National Gallery in London and was made into a series of prints by HENI Editions in 2018...read more