The Armada Portrait

Author : Christine Riding,Robert Blyth (Museum curator)
Publisher : Royal Museums Greenwich
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 190636768X

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The Armada Portrait by Christine Riding,Robert Blyth (Museum curator) Pdf

There is hardly a statement of power and authority in British history as blunt as the so-called "Armada Portrait." The unforgettable painting depicting Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) commemorates the most famous conflict of her reign--the great sea battle of 1588. It was then that the English fleet successfully defeated the invading Spanish Armada, which had been sent to overthrow Elizabeth. The portrait is arguably the most recognizable depiction of the Tudor queen. Still, it is also a complex, multi-layered representation of the iconography of Elizabeth I, as the "Empresse of the world" and the "Virgin Queen." Each of the three surviving versions of the portrait includes symbolism that illustrates Elizabeth's victory. The painting, as an outstanding historical document, summarizes the hopes and aspirations of the state, and Elizabeth as its head, at a watershed moment of history. In The Armada Portrait, Christine Riding takes the reader on a journey through the painting's history rendered possible thanks to the discoveries made during the most recent conservation work. The illustrated guide to the impressive "Armada Portrait" gives an overview of the context, creation, and significance of the portrait, alongside an evaluation of Elizabeth's legacy. Not leaving any topics untouched, The Armada Portrait reveals how the painting has inspired and informed countless portrayals of Elizabeth I in film, theater, and television.

Author : Roy Strong,National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015015257531

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Tudor & Jacobean Portraits by Roy Strong,National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Roy Strong
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300244298

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The Elizabethan Image by Roy Strong Pdf

Fifty years after his seminal Tate gallery London exhibition, 'The Elizabethan Image', leading authority Roy Strong returns with fresh eyes to the subject closest to his heart, The Virgin Queen, her court and our first Elizabethan age From celebrated portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and courtiers, to works depicting an aspiring 'middle class', Strong presents a detailed and authoritative examination of one of the most fascinating periods of British art. Enriching previous perceptions and ways of seeing the Elizabethans in their world, he reveals an age parallel in many ways to our own--a country aspiring professionally and changing socially. The gaze is from the inside, capturing the knights, melancholy lovers, poets (including Sidney, Donne and Sir John Davies), court favourites and their 'Gloriana'--as they mirrored and made themselves. Beginning with the great portrait of the Queen in grand procession with her Garter Knights, Strong pinpoints the characters and key motifs that run through the rest of the book: chivalry, changes to the social order, emblems and imagery - the full richness of the Elizabethan imagination. These pictures were intimate--personal commissions by private individuals, and not necessarily for public view. As such they are a glimpse into private worlds and sentiments and speak eloquently for the people who paid for, painted and lived amongst them, reversing an academic tendency to treat the portraits as if they had a life of their own, not grounded by the real people who commissioned them. Roy Strong concludes this richly illustrated volume with the famous and complex Rainbow Portrait, unpicking the iconography of this final painting of an ageless Elizabeth in her 'Mask of Youth'. Within a year of its completion the queen was dead--her portraits increasingly demoted and replaced by Mary Stuart's--as the splendour of the Elizabethan age and 'the cult of the queen' made way for new monarch James VI, who was to rule over a united England and Scotland.

Author : Albert Charles Hamilton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0802079237

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The Spenser Encyclopedia by Albert Charles Hamilton Pdf

A reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works and influence. Over 700 entries by 422 contributors, an index and extensive bibliography.

Author : Roy Strong
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015003633115

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Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. by Roy Strong Pdf

Author : Roy C. Strong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520058410

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The Cult of Elizabeth by Roy C. Strong Pdf

No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.

Author : Elizabeth W. Pomeroy
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038564261

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Reading the Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I by Elizabeth W. Pomeroy Pdf

Author : Clare Gittings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art, Elizabethan
ISBN : 1857594290

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The National Portrait Gallery Book of Elizabeth I by Clare Gittings Pdf

The National Portrait Gallery has such an important collection of sixteenth-century portraits that a whole gallery, known as The Tudor Gallery, is devoted to them. There is the 'Ditchley' portrait of Elizabeth I, as well as the Gallery's first ever acqui

Author : Janet Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000161106

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Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd by Janet Arnold Pdf

This book provides photographs of portraits, miniatures, tomb sculptures, engravings, woven textiles and embroideries of clothes found in the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth. It is an invaluable reference for students of the history of dress and embroidery, for social historians and art historians.

Author : John Guy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101609019

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Elizabeth by John Guy Pdf

COSTA AWARD FINALIST ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Film rights acquired by Gold Circle Films, the team behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding “A fresh, thrilling portrait… Guy’s Elizabeth is deliciously human.” –Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows her at the height of her power. Elizabeth was crowned queen at twenty-five, but it was only when she reached fifty and all hopes of a royal marriage were behind her that she began to wield power in her own right. For twenty-five years she had struggled to assert her authority over advisers, who pressed her to marry and settle the succession; now, she was determined not only to reign but to rule. In this magisterial biography, John Guy introduces us to a woman who is refreshingly unfamiliar: at once powerful and vulnerable, willful and afraid. We see her confronting challenges at home and abroad: war against France and Spain, revolt in Ireland, an economic crisis that triggers riots in the streets of London, and a conspiracy to place her cousin Mary Queen of Scots on her throne. For a while she is smitten by a much younger man, but can she allow herself to act on that passion and still keep her throne? For the better part of a decade John Guy mined long-overlooked archives, scouring handwritten letters and court documents to sweep away myths and rumors. This prodigious historical detective work has enabled him to reveal, for the first time, the woman behind the polished veneer: determined, prone to fits of jealous rage, wracked by insecurity, often too anxious to sleep alone. At last we hear her in her own voice expressing her own distinctive and surprisingly resonant concerns. Guy writes like a dream, and this combination of groundbreaking research and propulsive narrative puts him in a class of his own. "Significant, forensic and myth-busting, John Guy inspires total confidence in a narrative which is at once pacey and rich in detail." -- Anna Whitelock, TLS “Most historians focus on the early decades, with Elizabeth’s last years acting as a postscript to the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Guy argues that this period is crucial to understanding a more human side of the smart redhead.” – The Economist, Book of the Year

Author : Tony Riches
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798673053379

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Drake - Tudor Corsair by Tony Riches Pdf

From the author of the best-selling Tudor trilogy - the Elizabethan series begins. 1564: Devon sailor Francis Drake sets out on a journey of adventure.Drake learns of routes used to transport Spanish silver and gold, and risks his life in an audacious plan to steal a fortune. Queen Elizabeth is intrigued by Drake and secretly encourages his piracy. Her unlikely champion becomes a national hero, sailing around the world in the Golden Hind and attacking the Spanish fleet. King Philip of Spain has enough of Drake's plunder and orders an armada to threaten the future of England.

Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015059211782

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Elizabeth I by Folger Shakespeare Library Pdf

The Folger Shakespeare Library includes among its holdings the largest collection of materials in North America relating to Elizabeth I, including 38 documents signed by the queen. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth's death in March 1603, the Folger Library mounted an ambitious exhibition of more than one hundred books, manuscripts, and works of art from its collections. stunning detail, as affectionate stepdaughter and censorious cousin, as humanist prince, as powerful and often capricious patroness, and as a private person. She was the centre not only of national culture but also of a vibrant court culture with complex ritual practices such as elaborate New Year's gift exchanges and summertime progresses through the countryside. Her self-fashioning literally involved the use of fashion. She dressed to be seen; her clothes made a statement about her power as a female ruler and about the stability and strength of her nation. The many portraits of Elizabeth which survive, including the 1579 Sieve portrait featured on the cover, suggest the complex interplay between the queen's politics of self-display and her powerful vanity. Sheila Ffolliott, and Barbara Hodgdon explore Elizabeth's life, her books, her portraits, the many documents in the Folger Library relating to her, and her continuing charismatic power in British and American culture.

Author : Paul Poiret
Publisher : V&A Fashion Perspectives
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Fashion designers
ISBN : 1851779612

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King of Fashion by Paul Poiret Pdf

"Paul Poiret (1879-1944) led the fashion world in the first decade of the twentieth century and his autobiography tells the extraordinary story of his meteoric rise to fame. From his humble Parisian childhood to his debut as a couturier, to his experiences during the First World War, Poiret reveals all in this captivating tale, first published in 1931. An astute businessman, Poiret translated the spirit of Art Deco into revolutionary garments, and his memoir brings this astonishing period to life."--Publisher's description

Author : Ernest Cline
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984823151

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Armada by Ernest Cline Pdf

From the bestselling author of "Ready Player One." After sighting a UFO, high-school student Zack and his new comrades must scramble to prepare for an alien onslaught, in this rollicking, surprising thriller and coming-of-age adventure.

Author : Roy C. Strong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520058402

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The Cult of Elizabeth by Roy C. Strong Pdf

No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.