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Holbein's "Ambassadors", the picture and the men

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Mary F. S. Hervey
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About This Book

A detailed historical and iconographic study of Holbein's double portrait that reconstructs the identities, careers, and social milieu of the two sitters through published and previously unpublished documents and facsimiles. It traces the painting's provenance from the sixteenth century to museum acquisition and provides biographical chapters on Jean de Dinteville and George de Selve and their diplomatic missions. The author analyzes every painted object—the death's-head, dagger, insignia, celestial and terrestrial globes, books, instruments, lute, mosaic floor, and emblems—to interpret intellectual, religious, and political meanings. Numerous illustrations, appendices on related figures, and archival research support the narrative and technical examinations.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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1. The “Ambassadors,” from the picture by Holbein in the National Gallery, London (full-page) Frontispiece
2. Reduced Facsimile of document purchased from M. Saffroy (full-page) 12
3. Reduced Facsimile of document preserved amongst the Godefroy Papers, Bibl. de l’Institut, Paris (full-page) 18
4. The Château of Polisy, from an original drawing of the early seventeenth century, published by M. Lucien Coutant in the Almanach de Bar-sur-Seine (full-page) 35
5. Portrait of François II. de Dinteville, Bishop of Auxerre, from the Martyrdom of Ste. Eugénie, by Felix Chrétien, in the Church at Varzy (full-page) 56
6. Unnamed Drawing by Holbein in the Windsor Collection, supposed to represent Jean de Dinteville (full-page) 110
7. Arms of Jean de Dinteville, as still seen at Polisy (in the text) 128
8. Arms of the Bishop of Auxerre, from the tesselated pavement at Polisy (in the text) 130
9. Dormer Window of the Maison de l’Aûmonier at Polisy, showing the emblem of Fortune (in the text) 131
10. Mark of the printer Gryphe of Lyons, showing the emblem of Fortune (in the text) 132
11. The Cathedral of Lavaur at the present day (full-page) 143
12. Jean de Selve, Premier Président of the Parliament of Paris, from Bullart, “Académie des Sciences et des Arts” (full-page) 154
13. George de Selve, Bishop of Lavaur, from a posthumous painting at the Château of Villiers, Seine-et-Oise (full-page) 170
14. a. The “Arms of Death,” from Holbein’s Dance of Death.
b. The Death’s-head brooch in Dinteville’s cap (full-page) 197
15. a. Dinteville’s Dagger-sheath, from the picture of the “Ambassadors.”
b. Design for a Dagger-sheath after Holbein, at the Museum of Basle (full-page) 206
16. Celestial Globe, from the picture of the “Ambassadors,” reduced scale (full-page) 210
17. Terrestrial Globe, from the picture of the “Ambassadors,” reduced scale (full-page) 214
18. Gores of the Nuremberg Globe copied by Holbein, reduced scale (full-page) ibid.
19. Hymn-book, from the picture of the “Ambassadors” (full-page) 218
20. a. Book of Arithmetic, from the picture of the “Ambassadors.”
b. Page of Apian’s “Merchant’s Arithmetic,” copied by Holbein (full-page) 224
21. a. Design of the Mosaic Pavement in Westminster Abbey, with details of patterns (in the text) 226
b. Design of the Mosaic Pavement in Holbein’s picture, with details of patterns (in the text) ibid.