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Skulls are not uncommon in paintings. Why did Holbein choose to display one in this peculiar way?

 

From the National Gallery DVD, 'Making and Meaning: Holbein's Ambassadors'

 

Find out more about Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533

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