TUDOR FACES: Observations and Musings on Tudor Portraiture and Personalities
The latest issue of 'Tudor Life' is out, with Lust as its theme.
It's over 80 pages long, and includes my article Lusty Sons (about Henry VIII's desperate pursuit of a male heir).
Check out a sample copy here: https://www.tudorsociety.com/tudor-life-january-2021-taster/
To learn more about 'The Tudor Society': www.tudorsociety.com
Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Elizabeth
I as 'Professors and Defenders of the True Catholic Faith'. Painted in 1597 by an unknown artist. From The Art Institute of Chicago.
'Catholic' here does not refer to the Roman Catholic religion, but rather as the term 'universal' - in this case, the Protestant faith as practiced in England in the reign of Elizabeth. Hence, Mary Tudor has been excluded.
Although Henry VIII never considered himself a Protestant, he is shown here as a Reformer of the English Church.
Travel posters by artist Fred Taylor (1929). From The Art Institute of Chicago.
Sorry to stray from the Tudors, but this contrast is just so interesting.
Charles Stuart as Prince (by Peter Oliver) and Charles Stuart as King (by John Hoskins).
Though not from the Tudor era, this is most interesting!
The effigy of Anne of Denmark (wife of King James I) at Westminster Abbey.
At Anne's funeral in 1619, this effigy of her (and the now missing rest of it) would have been fully dressed and crowned, and laid recumbent on top of her coffin for all to see.
