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The Ambassadors' secret : Holbein and the world of the Renaissance
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- Creator
- John North
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xix, 346 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781852853303, 1852853301
- OCLC
- ocm48964743
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-332) and index.
- 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