The Ambassadors (Holbein) the lower shelf repeats a portion of a cartographically imaginative map created in possibly 1530 and of unknown origin. The map is referred to as the Ambassadors' Globe due to its popularly known appearance in the painting. The work has been described as "one of the most staggeringly impressive portraits in Renaissance art." The most notable and famous of Holbein's symbols in the work, however, is the distorted skull which is placed in the bottom center of the composition. The skull, rendered in anamorphic perspective, another invention of the Early Renaissance, is meant to be a visual puzzle as the
A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles allows him to blend the different shades of green and yellow with the blue of the sky and the stones of the lane. Van Gogh produced the painting in mid-September 1888, shortly after he had completed another view of the park: "" (F468). Van Gogh depicted the park in other works during this period, including: "" (F566), and "" (F472). A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles A Lane in a Public Garden in Arles is an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a lane running through the public garden in Arles. The painting is held at the