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Susan Foister, Ashok Roy, and Martin Wyld.
Making and Meaning: Holbein’s Ambassadors.
Published London: National Gallery Publications, 1997.
Series: Making and Meaning.
ISBN 1857091736;
ISBN-13 9781857091731.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Butler & Tanner, Frome & London.
Size: 220x280x8mm.
Page count: 112pp; 1 foldout.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some scuffs and creases on the covers, noticeable but not severe, a bit of wear on the edges with the corners starting to fray; some small indentations on the half-title and title pages; the spine is not creased from reading; a small inked mark inside the front cover, but elsewhere appears to be free of marking.

This item £30.00
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Weight without packaging: 509g.

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Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, Nov. 1997-Feb. 1998. Please note: includes a list of works exhibited, but does not otherwise include a formal catalogue.

Contents: Jean de Dinteville & Georges de Selves — French embassy of 1533; De Dinteville & the Château of Polisy; Objects in the painting; The skull & the crucifix; Holbein as a painter & the making of The Ambassadors.
Appendices: Provenance of The Ambassadors; Conservation; Physical structure; Lenders to the exhibition; Works in the exhibition.

Illustrations: throughout, colour and monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: no

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See also | Hans Holbein | Portraiture |
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