"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."
- ISBN10 1852854472
- ISBN13 9781852854478
- Publish Date 1 December 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Hambledon Continuum
- Edition Rev ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English