Holbein the Younger, the Ambassadors (old version, please see new version)

[@amberferrero8758]

This is exactly why I love art history. :)

[@alfredoechevarrieta7512]

Clase magistral. Y como en los videos que he visto, las voces de los especialistas con la sencillez y naturalidad que hacen tan agradable el análisis de las obras.

[@threethrushes]

Illuminating analysis. I'd never noticed the Christ before.

[@alfredoechevarrieta7512]

Yo lo descubrí en Google art projet. En las reproducciones generalmente se lo recorta.

[@CronTheCob]

So many little details hidden here, now I'm just racking my brain to find where Waldo's hiding

[@AtsukiMai]

OOOOHHH!! THE UNIVERSAL S WAS STARTED HERE

[@smarthistory-art-history]

We hope to publish an essay on the carpet that was the prototype for this image, and which is, of course, older than the painting. Stay tuned.

[@jahimuddin2306]

That S can be found long before this painting. Search up Carligul Ciobanului.

[@spiralofhope]

Those designs look nothing like the cool s.

[@Yoshiling]

This is awesome. Thank you.

[@rihonin]

The universal S was born

[@treehousebookshop6121]

Holbein was a German painter, not Swiss. He spent some years in Basel, but came from Augsburg.

[@smarthistory-art-history]

His professional life as an artist, prior to England, was in Basel so it seems disingenuous to call him a German artist.

[@treehousebookshop6121]

Really? He trained in Germany, worked in Augsburg, with his German painter father...he was German. If I go and work in Paris, does that make me French? His training and background, as well as his national identity, were German - Basel was German-speaking, so it may appear to be splitting hairs in a way, but he's rarely called a Swiss painter.

[@smarthistory-art-history]

As I understand it, Holbein left Augsburg early in his life and eventually settled in Basel when he was about 18 years old (by 1515). His father and brother also landed in Switzerland. It makes perfect sense to say that he was born and raised in Germany, but his professional career as an artist wasn't there. In a similar way, de Kooning is often seen as an American artist despite the fact that he was raised and trained in The Netherlands.

[@piushalg8175]

In fact he acquired the citizenship of Basel in 1519.

[@AndrewWhitehead]

Just to sow confusion... the Tate thinks he is a British painter: "Hans Holbein (1497/8-1543) was the first great British artist, and is regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time." -> www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/holbein-england

[@JorgeAponteGomez]

Incredible comment, awesome painting.

[@ReptarGonzalez]

This is art!

[@thegamingpancakeman8965]

The history of the universal s continues

[@jobenjob7624]

Was he really from Swiss origin? I thought he was born in Augsburg (Germany). But other than that, a really beautiful Video, thank you for your work.

There is no mention to the object behind the Jean de Diteville's feet, on the floor... Why?

[@smarthistory-art-history]

You mean the upside down case for the lute? Its in shadow and hard to see.

[@shivampatel9924]

What's that "S" on the 1st shelf

[@lautaroferrariterapias]

awesome!

[@predragpejakovic9446]

perfect

[@vicfontaine9480]

I think the skull effect on the floor looks like a roll of thin stiffened leather skin.(e.g..goat skin)This was used to have map drawings on in centuries gone by.

[@joekavanagh7171]

It doesn't look like a skull to me.

[@drania76]

You can use a teaspoon to see the skull

[@aureliorodriguez5136]

Please consider to prepare another masterclass devoted to Escher`s "Reptiles". Thank you.

[@Xerxes612Rob]

fascinating

[@Justacec]

I have a friend who did a study of the skull in the painting from the perspective, pun intended, of the transformation and the mechanics used to draw it. Check it out at: watch?v=ffOVgC_Cdxw

[@uncleogee604]

S

[@leenolantern]

they're going really far into analysis...

[@auroramacula]

of course, it is the one with the anime profile picture criticizing... get a grip lad, they are renowed art historians. share useful opinions; refrain from trying to dumb down the public here, likewise.

[@leenolantern]

@@auroramacula i'm not criticizing ._.