The Ambassadors

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The Ambassadors painting was painted in 1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger otherwise known as Holbein. This painting was a portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve who were the ambassadors of France at the time. This painting mirrors how far the knowledge and understanding about exploration improved and how the ambassadors were successful during the Renaissance. If you look closely the evidence for this is on the table. For example the globes and the telescope in the hand of the man on the left show evidence of exploration tools.During the Renaissance exploration was not the only subject that improved. This painting shows two other subjects that also improved- music and literature.If you look at the bottom of the table you will see a lute which is a musical instrument that looks like a guitar but shorter and fatter and a few books. Books were mass produced during the Renaissance because the printing press was invented which encouraged more kinds of books to be made and made the information unbiased. If you look at the two men, you would realize how fancy and formal their clothes are.This shows that the ambassadors were very successful when it came to researching the earth, I say that because the clothes they are wearing is not considered cheap. I was surprised to see the man on the right was not a dressed up as the man on the left.