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 skeletons interacting with ordinary people, as well as a painting where a gaunt, rotting (*) Jesus appears to give the middle finger titled The Body of the Dead Christ in the 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 skull. For 10 points, Henry VIII employed which German painter of The Ambassadors? ■END■
ANSWER: Hans Holbein the Younger
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