Two French diplomats, Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, stand beside shelves of globes, instruments and books: the learning of their age. It is a double portrait about worldly knowledge and its limits, painted in London in a year of religious crisis.
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The strange shape across the floor is a skull in anamorphic distortion. Stand close at the right edge and it snaps into view.
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