Images of the skull in art

[Vladimir]

Сообщение от Konstantin

Repeat once more for the gifted. This flattened skull in the legs after part of the picture, and not imposed from the top element? And if you expand it then get the picture right?

Exactly. Painting in 1533, hangs in the National Gallery in London. Great size, by the way - two by two meters. I read that this is not just a "chip", but a deliberate optical effect. Type if you close one eye and look at some angle, then the skull will open in normal proportions, due to the peculiarities of view. So this is a medieval op-art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_ (Holbein )