The artist behind the works may have used Elizabeth's likeness as a template in other royal portraits to visually emphasize her resemblance to previous monarchs and reinforce her status as the legitim ...

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A new analysis of the Hever Rose portrait suggests that the painter deliberately modified an existing template to showcase ...

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"Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750–1850" will be on display through June 21.

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Tudor Grange Academy students to re-enact Queen Elizabeth I’s 1575 visit to Worcester with a parade, Elizabethan dance and scenes from Romeo ...

For most people in Tudor England, an ordinary diet was more structured – and often more varied – than we might expect ...

Art in Tudor England was more than just decoration. Occupants of a precarious throne, passed down through a series ...