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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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The Ambassadors
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(1533, National Gallery) Painting by *Holbein of the French ambassador to London, Jean de Dinteville, with his friend Georges de Selve. Famous not only for its powerful realism as a double portrait, but also for its wealth of detail, all of symbolic significance – and in particular for the strange cautionary smudge across the bottom which, if viewed from close to the canvas on either side, tightens into the image of a skull.
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