Georges de Selve

features about religion, power and political discord. In 1533 Hans Holbein the Younger created a larger than life-size painting measuring up to 2.07m by 2.1m. He uses oil paint on It features Jean de Dinteville (on the left), French ambassador to England, and to the right is his friend Georges de Selve, a bishop, who also acted as French ambassador to the Republic of Venice, the Pope in Rome, and to England, Germany, and Spain. The painting is now in the National Art Gallery of London and is admired

book, a set-square, a pair of dividers, a lute, German hymn-book and a case of flutes. The terrestrial globe shows the map of central Europe and if you have a close look on it, you can actually spot the word ?gPolisy?h which indicate the estate Jean de Dinteville owns in France. The Arithmetic book next to the globe is partly open. The first word visible on the opened page begins with Divide. It might be indicating the political division, disharmony in Europe. Next to it is a lute that has a broken

Hans Holbein’s painting, The Ambassadors, is a beautiful piece of artwork with a slightly abstract appearing twist. Holbein exhibits some expert precision and a talented eye in his work. When examining The Ambassadors the viewer can truly understand the whole of the artwork and place the unique portion of it under a revealing spotlight. In The Ambassadors, Holbein tries to portray two noble looking men and their workplace in a time period dating around the 17th or 18th century. Each man is placed

Holbein was born in Augsburg and is considered one of the greatest German painters of his time. He painted The Ambassadors in England in the year 1533. It is a full-length double portrait of Jean de Dinteville, the ambassador to England on the left (who commissioned the painting) and on the right Gorges de Selve, the Bishop of Lavaur and ambassador to the Papal court. Both men served King Francis I of France. Humanism was a theme during the renaissance as it was an intellectual movement towards education

engineer George de Mestral was removing burrs from his dog after a hunting trip, he decided to observe them and see how they worked. When he looked at the burrs under a microscope, George de Mestral noticed that there are tiny hooks at the end of each spine on a bur. These miniscule hooks are the reason why burrs stick onto things like animal fur, clothing, and hair. The hooks catch onto anything with loops, which animal fur, clothing, and hair all have. This one observation inspired George de Mestral

When approaching The Repentant Magdalen by Georges de La Tour, who is best known for his unique use of light, the atmosphere makes an immediate impression of subdued vulnerability—an unusual description for a piece of artwork from an era of theatrical expression and palpable, dramatic tension. As a French Baroque oil painting, The Repentant Magdalen stands out as a result of comparison to its peers, but when viewed alone as an individual piece, it instead stands out for its ability to form a personal

is Tourette’s syndrome to be exact it is viewed as a neurological disease in which a person experiences uncontrollable tics, or movements these can be both motor and verbal tics. It was first recognized as an illness around the year of 1885 by Dr. George Gilles, the first patient was said to be over 80 years old. Tourette’s is most likely to be diagnosed in men than women the odds are 3 times more likely in a man’s favor. It is estimated that 200,000 Americans have the most severe form of TS. (National

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, commonly known as Tourette’s syndrome, was named after a French neurologist, Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette. Tourette’s syndrome is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary movements and vocalization more commonly known as tics. Georges Gilles de la Tourette first diagnosed Tourette’s syndrome to an 86-year-old French woman in 1885. Since then, researchers still have not found a concrete cause for Tourette’s syndrome. Even though they have not found a direct

Main Post Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome I chose this disease because I really don’t know very much about it and would like to learn more. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (GTS) is defined as echolalia (imitating others), multiple tics (motor and vocal), as well as coprolalia (spontaneous swearing). Neuropsychological disorders associated with GTS are depression, obsessive compulsive behaviors, obsessive compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Onset of GTS is usually aged

The Ambassadors depicts two young men on the left is Jean de Dinteville, French ambassador to England in 1533. To the right is Georges de Selve, bishop of Lavur who was an ambassador of the Venetian Republic. Jean de Dinteville is dressed in secular attire that shows his wealth and grandeur while Georges de Selve is wearing clerical clothing. Surrounding them are multiple items from a globe and other navigational, time and celestial tools and a skull in the foreground of the painting. Holbein’s use