The years of Tudor rule saw unprecedented upheaval. Discover the huge changes that took place between the crowning of Henry ...
Before Bosworth, Margaret Beaufort’s actions were shaped less by maternal devotion to Henry Tudor than by trauma – and the ...
“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 ...
When a choreographer’s centennial year rolls around, the public can count on a few sure things. There will be at least one celebratory video montage, plus one earnest, yet chummy panel discussion. A ...
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 ...
A jeweled and embroidered “gabled hood’' frames Seymour’s face tightly. Adding to the mood of luxury and piety in the painting are a jeweled necklace and pendant pinned to Seymour’s bodice that spells ...
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 ...
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 ...
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New York City may never sleep, but its tourist hot spots usually slow down quite a bit in the gloomy, gray depths of January. The crowds at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its bastion of culture known ...
For all the tabloid fuss and docudramas, the messy love lives of today’s British royals seem like pallid reflections of monarchical scandals past. The personalities are smaller, the stakes so much ...