This artist depicted a spherical ornament hanging beside a merchant who stands behind a vase with carnations in his Portrait of Georg Giese [GHEE-suh]. This painter, who caricatured Martin Luther as Hercules, also painted his patron’s deceased and current spouses beside Mary, who wears a blue dress with an orange sash. This artist created a set of 41 woodcuts depicting (15[1])skeletons interacting with ordinary (15[1])people, as well as a painting where a (15[1])gaunt, rotting (-5[1])(*) Jesus appears to give the middle finger titled The Body of the Dead Christ in the (10[1])Tomb. In another painting, this artist of the Darmstadt Madonna and Dances of Death placed a globe and a lute between the two title figures, who stand on either side of an anamorphic (10[1])skull. For 10 points, Henry VIII employed which German painter of The Ambassadors? ■END■