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Holbein's 'The Ambassadors'
John Berger discusses Holbein's painting 'Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ('The Ambassadors')' and points out that while this painting has many subjects the overriding theme and purpose of the painting is to display wealth and entitlement.
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