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Hans Holbein’s masterwork The Ambassadors is an exquisite portrait o
The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...
The ‘Pelican’ portrait , attributed to Nicholas Hilliard
Anne Boleyn dropped suggestive hints and Elizabeth I projected undying monarchy through her portraits: Tudor women knew how to use art to send a message, Philippa Gregory tells Carla Passino
How economic prosperity paved the way for the Dutch Golden Age
Edward VII swept away the cobwebs of mid-Victorian style, Queen Mary had passion for all things small and the Queen Mother bought rather avant-garde art. In a forthcoming talk, Tim Knox, director of the Royal Collection, charts a century of regal taste
WATCHING THE RECENT SPECTACLE OF THOSE latter-day emperors President Xi of China and India’s Narendra Modi hugging each other at the summit in Tianjin, my mind cast back to an earlier image of a pan-A
