Image: The Ambassadors, detail of globe, lute, and books, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Description: Detail of Double Portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, called The Ambassadors, oil and tempera on oak wood, National Gallery, London. This lower shelf between the two ambassadors shows a terrestrial globe, a lute, a Lutheran hymn book, an arithmetic book, dividers, and a bag of wooden flutes. A theme of disharmony is suggested, perhaps referring to the religious context of the ambassadors' mission: the lute has a broken string, the arithmetic book lies open on a division page, and one of the flutes juts out from the rest (Buck, 98).
Title: Spanish: Los Embajadores  The Ambassadorstitle QS:P1476,es:"Los Embajadores " label QS:Les,"Los Embajadores " label QS:Lhu,"A nagykövetek (ifjabb Holbein festménye)" label QS:Leu,"Enbaxadoreak" label QS:Lca,"Els ambaixadors" label QS:Lde-ch,"Die Gesandten" label QS:Lde,"Die Gesandten" label QS:Len-gb,"The Ambassadors" label QS:Lfa,"سفیران" label QS:Lzh,"出訪英國宮廷的法國大使" label QS:Lda,"Ambassadørerne" label QS:Ltr,"Elçiler" label QS:Lja,"大使たち" label QS:Lsv,"Ambassadörerna" label QS:Lhe,"השגרירים (הולביין)" label QS:Lfi,"Suurlähettiläät" label QS:Len-ca,"The Ambassadors" label QS:Lit,"Ambasciatori" label QS:Lfr,"Les Ambassadeurs" label QS:Lcv,"Элчĕсем" label QS:Lsk,"Veľvyslanci" label QS:Larz,"السفراء" label QS:Lru,"Послы" label QS:Lbg,"Посланиците" label QS:Leo,"La Ambasadoroj" label QS:Lpt,"Os Embaixadores" label QS:Luk,"Посланці" label QS:Llv,"Sūtņi (glezna)" label QS:Lro,"Ambasadorii" label QS:Lsl,"Ambasadorja" label QS:Lzu,"The Ambassadors (Holbein)" label QS:Laz,"Səfirlər (Holbein)" label QS:Lpt-br,"Os Embaixadores" label QS:Lnn,"Ambassadørane" label QS:Lth,"ราชทูต" label QS:Lpl,"Ambasadorowie" label QS:Lnb,"Ambassadørene" label QS:Lnl,"De ambassadeurs" label QS:Lmk,"Амбасадори" label QS:Lcy,"Y Llysgenhadon" label QS:Lhy,"Դեսպանները" label QS:Lvi,"Đại sứ" label QS:Len,"The Ambassadors" label QS:Lar,"السفراء (هولباين)" label QS:Lel,"Οι πρεσβευτές" label QS:Lcs,"Vyslanci"
Credit: Stephanie Buck, Hans Holbein, Cologne: Könemann, 1999, ISBN 3829025831.
Author: Hans Holbein the Younger
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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