TUDOR & JACOBEAN PORTRAITS: National Portrait Gallery

Renowned for its portraits from the Tudor and Jacobean eras, this National Portrait Gallery book presents a window into history through the images of the people who made it. There are 90 portraits selected from the NPG and The National Trust featuring the likes and likenesses of Francis Bacon, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Denmark, Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, Katherine Parr, Walter Ralegh, William Shakespeare, to earls and dukes and ladies in exquisite miniatures - watercolours on small pieces of vellum, closer to illuminated manuscripts than oil paintings. From members of the ruling elite to the writers, artists and artisans who shaped the flourishing political, literary and artistic culture of the 16th and early 17th centuries, this is a glamorous publication packed with colour. 176pp.
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