As Holbein's masterpiece reveals, lurking behind mundane appearances is a world of surpassing strangeness.
Consider the evidence: both men were concerned with developing systematic observation into a science, believing that mundane appearances concealed clues which the trained eye could reveal.
Episodes like "2Shy" and "Pusher" feature sadistic villains, containing human beings capable of highly immoral acts despite their seemingly mundane appearances.
But last night, these odd-ball items left behind by the late Syd Barrett, once of Pink Floyd, achieved a worth far beyond the mundane reality of their appearance.
Its foremost spokesman was Russian painter and ideologue Aleksandr Rodchenko, who employed distinctly unusual vantage points in order to give the mundane world a new appearance.
In the Russian media and on the social network Snob, intellectuals and business folk have decried its appearance as mundane, that of a department store, something without flair.
And it surely is not efficient for these firms to have partners make court appearances on such mundane matters.
"So one thing we could do is make atypical appearance more familiar and mundane," possibly by showing people with these types of appearances on television more often, he says.
Speech Debelle, the young female rapper who won the Mercury Prize in England last month, had to cancel her appearances for a more mundane reason: visa problems.
