Detail of double portrait of jean de dinteville and georges de selve, called the ambassadors, oil and tempera on oak wood, national gallery, london. On this upper shelf between the two ambassadors sit various instruments for measuring dates and time, including an astronomical globe, a cylindrical calendar, two quadrants, a sun clock, and a torquetum. All the instruments in this paradoxical picture show imprecise times (buck, 98). Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1533. Place of creation: London. Dimensions: height: 207 cm (81.4 in) ; width: 209 cm (82.2 in). Medium: oil on oak panel. Depicted People: Jean de Dinteville, Georges de Selve. Collection: National Gallery. The Ambassadors, detail of measuring instruments, by Hans Holbein the Younger
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