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Question #1

In The French Ambassadors, Holbein has painted the two French ambassadors to England through the lens of which school of thought?

A. Protestantism

B. Rationalism

C. Hermeticism

D. Humanism

Question #2

The anamorphic skull in the center of Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors is...

A. a reminder to honor the dead.

B. a memento mori (reminder of death).

C. present to show that the French Ambassador had died by the time the painting was completed.

D. present to show off Holbein's knowledge of human anatomy.