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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. Rationalism

B. Humanism

C. Hermeticism

D. Protestantism

Question #2

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

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

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. a reminder to honor the dead.