A Tudor-era hull dug out of a Kent gravel quarry is filling in a crucial missing chapter of British maritime history.
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 ...
Hamnet has brought Tudor architecture and interiors to the fore. And there are plenty of houses around the UK still showcasing 16th-Century living.
The Tudor dynasty ruled England for 118 years, just three generations, but leaving an indelible mark on the country and embodying for many the paradigmatic English monarchy. From Henry VII to ...
It was a consequential 118 years. Emerging after England’s War of the Roses, the Tudor dynasty — lasting from 1485 to 1603 — saw only three generations rule the country. And yet it was a time of major ...
The Tudor dynasty was short in duration, but it has become perennial in memory. Just over a century passed between 1485, when Henry Tudor became Henry VII, and 1603, when his granddaughter Elizabeth I ...
They "like to dress up," said Helena Nordstrom, director of communications at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Legion of Honor is hosting an exhibit dedicated to showcasing the art of ...
Arguably the most famous rulers in world history, Tudor monarchs Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I were, according to journalist and author Meyer (A World Undone), “cold and ruthless egotis[ts]” ...
The theme of novelist and historian Ackroyd’s second title in his projected six-volume history of England (after Foundation) is the 16th-century religious reformation that began, as a dynastic matter, ...
In Elizabethan England, Nicholas Hilliard secured his place as the queen’s favorite portraitist by creating tiny, exquisitely ...