I can't explain why I am drawn to this painting. The guy on the left is richly dressed with
fabulous pink sleeves and looks quite young as well as being about as wide as
he is tall. The other chap is just as
richly dressed although not quite as flamboyantly – apparently he was a
Bishop. They are ambassadors to England
from France.
They are standing on each side of a table containing
odd objects and the elliptical strange shape in the foreground is supposed to
be a distorted skull… weird, or what?
The artist was German but lived for most of his career
in England nad was an official painter to the court of Henry VIII.
He died of a suspected plague – only 45 years old.
My attention was drawn to this work by a huge doorstop
of a book I got from the library – The Art Book from Phaidon Press. Get it out if you have strong enough
muscles. There are 579 pages, each
dedicated to one work by an artist. The
artists are in alpha order so you get interesting juxtapositions between modern
art and old masters.
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