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Queen Elizabeth I’s death has been speculated over for centuries (Picture: Culture Club/Getty Images) It’s been 420 years since her death, but experts now believe they’ve determined how ...
Elizabeth I was expert at what we now call public relations, and she was careful to control the distribution of images of herself. Katherine Coombes explains how the 'Virgin Queen' used portrait ...
X-ray images of a painting of one of Tudor England's most fascinating characters have revealed a morbid detail hidden for more than 100 years. The late Victorian-era painting of John Dee, known as ...
Few images are as well known as the Armada painting, which shows Queen Elizabeth I basking in the aftermath of the greatest military success of her long reign, the defeat of a Spanish Armada.
As two portraits of Elizabeth I go on show in London's National Portrait Gallery, Tim Lambon analyses the use of art as propaganda in the Tudor era - and beyond.
One of the three Armada portraits of Queen Elizabeth I Woburn Abbey Collection After weeks of bitter conflict in summer 1588, England vanquished a tremendous fleet of 130 Spanish ships known as ...
Remnants of a dress belonging to Queen Elizabeth I may have been found in an altar cloth in Herefordshire. The fabric at St Faith's Church in Bacton has been identified by experts as a piece of a ...
Photo / Getty Images. Almost 500 years ago Queen Elizabeth was struck down with a violent fever. What happened next would change the course of history. This story was previously published in 2019.
Few images are as well known as the Armada painting, which shows Queen Elizabeth I basking in the aftermath of the greatest military success of her long reign, the defeat of a Spanish Armada.