“The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit, postponed for two years because of Covid, offers.more than 100 exquisite objects ...
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 ...
"Thanks to Hollywood movies and TV dramas like The Tudors, many Americans have heard of King Henry VIII and his six wives, as well as the "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I, but few may be aware of the ...
With Wolf Hall returning to the small screen this week, I predict a sudden revival of the Tudor aesthetic. Sadly, I don’t ...
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 ...
LONDON — Tudor England under King Henry VIII was more racially diverse than experts previously thought, according to a new study analyzing skeletal remains of a drowned maritime crew. The "Mary Rose" ...
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 ...
Transforming himself from an exile with a dubious claim to England’s throne into the founder of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VII’s (1457–1509) micromanagement and questionable tax collection practices ...
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals the majesty of this former royal family and the manipulation of its image to exude power and relevance. By James Barron This article is part of ...
A Tudor manor in Cambridge, England, with ties to Henry VIII hit the market earlier this month for £6.95 million (US$9.48 million).