This painting is called The Ambassadors, and was painted by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1533. (I start every post like this. I should think of something new...)
Anyways, looking at the painting, you are probably wondering: what the heck is that white blob in the middle? Looks like some skull that they stretched out and tilted. I wondered that, too, and a quick google search brought me to an article that explained everything.
If you tilt it in a certain way, it's a skull! (Since you can't tilt a computer screen very easily, here's the skull as a normal image.)You might think: yeah, yeah, just google how to draw in a cool way and that'll be on the 10th page or something. But not for Mr. Holbein!! Keep in mind that this was paintied in 1533!!!! No, it's not a typo. That's 477 years ago.
Pretty, cool, huh?
Makes me wonder, though, how bad it actually was to be an ambassador then. With skulls on the same painting...
But then again, some of the other stuff there is pretty random. Like a lute, a globe, several books, some weird blue ball and other things I don't see every day and therefore can't identify.
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