Today's video examines the form and function of the royal court in Tudor England…
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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise noted):
Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (1540). Held by the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica.
Portrait of a young woman (possibly Katherine Howard) from the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1540). Held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Field of Cloth of Gold” by an unknown artist of the British school (c. 1545). Held by the Royal Collection.
Close-up of the ceiling of the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace, England (October 27, 2013). Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Photograph of Henry VIII's Great Hall – Hampton Court Palace – Joy of Museums – for details see www.joyofmuseums.com (taken 2017).
“Henry VIII dining in his private chamber” from the circle of Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1548). Held by the British Museum.
Reconstruction imagining how the Great Watching Chamber, the first room beyond the Great Hall, might have appeared in the 1500s. Guards control the entrance; those allowed to pass are richly dressed. Retrieved from https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/life-at-the-tudor-court/#gs.2aabrk
Detail showing Henry VIII bowing to Catherine of Aragon, from the Westminster tournament painting (1511). Held by the College of Arms.
Alof de Wignacourt and his page by Caravaggio (around 1608). Preserved at the Louvre Museum.
Double portrait of Princess Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, attributed to Jan Gossaert (c. 1516). Held by Woburn Abbey.
“King Edward VI and the Pope” by an unknown artist (c. 1575). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Detail from “The Family of Henry VIII: An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: Attributed to Lucas de Heere (c. 1572). Held by the National Museum, Cardiff.
Processional portrait of Elizabeth I of England by George Vertue (c. 1600). Kept in an unknown private collection.
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