Prof. Dario Del Bufalo

The floor in “The Ambassadors” by Holbein is NOT the one in Westminster Abbey

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors. 1533. Londra, National Gallery. Detail of the floor with the graphic removal of the anamorphic skull and the reconstruction of the ‘Star of Solomon’. Among the marbles portrayed, one can recognise the Greek Serpentine Green, with its characteristic ‘cross’ design (from which one of its names, lapis croceus, is derived). One can...