Jean de Dinteville
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The Ambassadors (Holbein)
The Ambassadors is a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger in the National Gallery, London. As well as being a double portrait, the painting contains a still life of several meticulously rendered objects, the meaning of which is the cause of much debate...
, painted whilst he was French ambassador to London, and which he presumably commissioned. Dinteville's motto was Memento mori
Memento mori
Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die". It names a genre of artistic work which varies widely, but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their own mortality...
, meaning "Remember thou shalt die."
See also
- François de Dinteville (1498-1554), his brother