allusions

No one quite knows for sure why Hans Holbein the younger decided to put a skull in his picture called French Ambassadors, but we do know it’s there. We can see it, sort of, in the first image, circled in white. He did not paint the skull in correct perspective with the rest of the painting. However, looking at it from the side, one can see the skull in correct proportions.

Gotta love anamorphic perspective.