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02716aam a22003974a 4500 001 4AE5D518E96C11DFB3A6AA996AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20101106010205 008 020201s2004 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2002190232 020 $a 9781852853303 (alk. paper) 020 $a 1852853301 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9781852854478 020 $a 1852854472 035 $a (OCoLC)48964743 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d UKM $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d MUQ $d OCLCG $d IG# $d SZ9XM $d P4I $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en $a e-uk-en 050 $a ND588.H7 $b A64 2004 050 00 $a ND588.H7 $b A64 2004 100 1 $a North, John David. 245 1 $a The Ambassadors' secret : $b Holbein and the world of the Renaissance / $c John North. 250 $a Rev. ed. 260 $a New York : $b Hambledon and London, $c 2004. 300 $a xvii, 462 p. : $b ill. (some col.) ; $c 20 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [438]-448) and index. 505 2 $a I. The painter and his world -- Portrayal -- Hans Holbein -- The two ambassadors. Jean de Dinteville ; Georges de Selve ; After Cranmer's judgement ; Diplomatic catholics -- Nicolaus Kratzer. Astronomy and the liberal arts ; Thomas More and Oxford -- II. The painting -- Strange devices -- Instruments for the heavens -- The mundane level -- The distorted skull. The scrots anamorphic portrait -- From Apelles to an abbey pavement. The Apelles line ; The St Michael-Rome line -- Hints of astrology -- III. The meaning -- Shadow and truth. Memento mori -- Touched by the occult. Magic and angels ; Metaphors of spirit ; Humanism and magic ; Gematria and the Cabala ; Agrippa and the luxuriance of occult belief ; An alchemical image? -- Air on a broken string -- 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. Chaucer at the court of Henry VIII -- Apelles and Clio -- Appendix 1: Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ -- Appendix 2: The compound solar instrument -- Appendix 3: Rabanus Maurus and Solomon's throne -- Appendix 4: Holbein and Chaucer compared. 600 10 $a Holbein, Hans, $d 1497-1543. $t Ambassadors. 650 0 $a Portrait painting, Renaissance. 600 10 $a Selve, George de, $d 1508-1541 $v Portraits. 600 10 $a Dinteville, Jean de, $d 1504-1555 $v Portraits. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205012648.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020015741.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20101106041140.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4AE5D518E96C11DFB3A6AA996AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search