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The Ambassadors¿ Secret is a radical reinterpretation of one of the world¿s most famous paintings. Holbein¿s celebrated portrait of two French diplomats at the court of Henry VIII has usually been linked to the political and religious unrest of the day. John North shows that the painting has a very different, and previously undetected, central theme and many other meanings. Far from being random, the objects in The Ambassadors are deliberately, and very accurately, placed. In revealing exactly what they, and the painting, mean, The Ambassadors¿ Secret opens a remarkable window on the world of the Renaissance.
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John North is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and Exact Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
John North, Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy and the Exact Sciences, University of Groningen, The netherlands and Fellow of the British Academy.
John North is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and Exact Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. Edition: Revised. 462 p., illustrated; Pages yellowed due to age, otherwise the copy is in very good condition, free of annotations - Seiten altersbedingt gegilbt, sonst ist das Exemplar in einem sehr guten Zustand, frei von Anstreichungen - Contents - The painter and his worls - portrayal - Provenance and Date A Hidden Meaning? - Hans Holbein - Master Painter - Holbein's First Visit to England - Return to Basel - London Again - Death and Reputation - The two ambassdaors - The World of Diplomacy - Jean de Dinteville - The First London Embassy and the King's Divorce - The Second Visit to London - Georges de Selve - After Cranmer's Judgement - Further Embassies and Final Retreat - Diplomatic Catholics - Nicolaus Kratzer - Astronomy and the Liberal Arts - Wandering Scholar - Thomas More and Oxford - Kratzer and the Continent - Kratzer at Court - The Mind's Construction - II - The Painting - S - Lines and Method - On Detecting Anomaly - Instruments for the heavnes - The Celestial Globe and Holbein's Viewpoints - The Globe and the Painting's Perspective - The Setting of the Celestial Globe - The Cylinder Dial - The Compound Solar Instrument - The Quadrant - The Polyhedral Dial - The Polyhedral Dial: What the Painter Saw - The Torquetum - The Mundane Level - The Terrestrial Globe and the Dividers - I he Arithmetic Book and Set-Square - The Musical Instruments - The Hymnal - The dissorted skull - The Scrots Anamorphic Portrait - Skull and Sun - Right and Left Eyes - Technique - Another Anamorph? - Apelles to an abbey Pavement - The Apelles Line - The Gloves Line - The St Michael-Rome Line - The Orb of Instruments, Solomon s Seal - and the White Strip - Hexagram and Moon - The Turkey Rug - The Abbey Pavement and the Form of the Universe - Holbein's Pavement - hints of astrology - The Horoscope Square - The Horoscope's Detail - The Hexagram and the Planets A Note on Golden Section - III. the meaning - shadow and the truth - The Place of the Skull - The Theme of Twenty-Seven - Memento Mori - touched by the ocult ? - Magic and Angels - Metaphors of Spirit - Humanism and Magic - Gematria and the Cabala - Agrippa and the Luxuriance of Occult Belief - An Alchemical Image? - On a Broken String - Rome and the Lyre - Division and the Harmony of the World - Theologies of the Cross - Colet, More and the Sun - More and the Crucifixion - Luther's 'Theology of the Cross' - Symbols of the Millennium - Ram, Cross and Creation - Cygnus and the Cross - The Rituals of Good Friday - Fears for the Mid-Millennium - On Painters and Authors - A Shared Tradition? - Chaucer at the Court of Henry vm - The True Author - Apelles and Clio - Appendix I: Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ - Appendix II: The Compound Solar Instrument - Appendix III: Rabanus Maurus and Solomon's Throne Appendix IV: Holbein and Chaucer Compared - Appendix V: The Celestial Globe and the Northern Cross. ISBN 9781852854478 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 410. Seller Inventory # 1214691