The artist behind the works may have used Elizabeth's likeness as a template in other royal portraits to visually emphasize her resemblance to previous monarchs and reinforce her status as the legitim ...
A new analysis of the Hever Rose portrait suggests that the painter deliberately modified an existing template to showcase ...
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Hidden detail in an Anne Boleyn portrait challenges ‘witchcraft’ claims, historians say
Hidden Detail in an Anne Boleyn Portrait Challenges ‘Witchcraft’ Claims, Historians Say ...
A familiar portrait of Anne Boleyn has just yielded an unfamiliar secret. Infrared scanning and tree-ring dating suggest an Elizabethan artist deliberately altered the so-called “Hever Rose” portrait ...
LONDON — Many British schoolchildren will be familiar with the rhyme “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.” It was a common mnemonic device to help children learn the sequence of ...
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Queen Elizabeth I (The Ditchley Portrait) (ca. 1592). National Portrait Gallery, London. Image © National Portrait Gallery, London ...
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Elizabethan portrait sells at auction for £3.2m
A 1562 painting of a duke has sold for more than £3.2m ($4.2m), said by the auctioneers to be a record for an Elizabethan portrait at auction. Hans Eworth's portrait of Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of ...
The entrance to the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” is dominated by a pair of bronze angels bearing candlesticks and an imposing nine foot high ...
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