{"id":4799,"date":"2009-10-30T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2009-11-06T17:03:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T21:03:12","slug":"found-map-the-ambassadors-by-hans-holbein-the-younger-1533","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/10\/30\/4799\/","title":{"rendered":"[FOUND MAP] The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein, The Younger (1533)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/the_ambassadors_map.jpg\" title=\"Close up detail of The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger showing a map of Europe around 1533\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><small><i>Upside down detail of the terrestrial globe in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ambassadors_%28Holbein%29\">The Ambassadors<\/a> by Hans Holbein, The Younger<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ambassadors_%28Holbein%29\">The Ambassadors<\/a> (1533) is a painting by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger\">Hans Holbein the Younger<\/a> in the National Gallery in London.  I remember first learning about it in my AP Art History class in High School.  I was drawn to both the intricate nature of the <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9d\/Holbein-ambassadors.jpg\">painting<\/a>&#8216;s near-photorealism and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anamorphic_projection\">anamorphic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Skull-Ambassadors.jpg\">skull<\/a> that obstructs the foreground.  Today I was attempting to warp the skull to see it properly rendered and I realized that there was a nicely painted globe in the background.  Well, actually, there is a lot more than just a globe in the background of this painting&#8211; there is also a beautiful celestial globe and numerous scientific instruments, but I will let you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/server.php?show=conObject.227\">explore the painting on your own<\/a>.  Suffice it to say, this painting remains one of my favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upside down detail of the terrestrial globe in The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein, The Younger The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger in the National Gallery in London. I remember first learning about it in my AP Art History class in High School. I was drawn to both the intricate nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,259,56,352,250],"tags":[3903,2690,1850,7092,3900,5812,3899,8002,7412,3898,3906,1097,3902,3901,3904,3905,3907,3897],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-map","category-history","category-location","category-wikipedia","category-world","tag-age-of-exlporation","tag-antique-map","tag-art-history","tag-cartography","tag-celestial-globe","tag-europe","tag-found-globe","tag-found-map","tag-globe","tag-hans-holbein-the-younger","tag-instruments","tag-london","tag-memento-mori","tag-national-gallery","tag-painting","tag-science","tag-terrestrial-globe","tag-the-ambassadors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2209,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}