Jean de Dinteville

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Detail from The Ambassadors
Detail from The Ambassadors

Jean de Dinteville (1504-1555) was a French diplomat. He is the left-hand figure in Holbein's 1533 painting The Ambassadors, painted whilst he was French ambassador to London, and which he presumably commissioned. Dinteville's motto was Memento mori, meaning "Remember thou shalt die."

[edit] See also

  • François de Dinteville (1498-1554), his brother
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