today we studied this painting by Hans Holbein who is a German artist. this painting has an anamorphosis in it.
An anamorphous is a distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion.
here the anamorphous is in the form of a skull at the bottom of the painting.
'The Ambassadors' by Hans Holbein
The skull at the bottom, which would be seen from standing on the left side looking from a 27° angle downwards.
