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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: The Swaggering Francois I & His Curious Dragon-Headed Artichoke Caduceus
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans. Thursday, June 4, 2015. The Swaggering Francois I and His Curious Dragon-Headed Artichoke Caduceus. Francois I and Eleanor (artist unknown, Royal Collection). Meet King Francois I and Queen Eleanor, a not-very-happy royal couple. The swaggering Francois agreed to be married as a political gesture, but he made a point of posing for two hours in front of a public window with his consort on the day his bride-to-be arrived in France. July 28, 2015 at 3:27 PM. This blog...
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: The "Unseemly" Snake-Doctored Portrait of a Two-Faced Queen Elizabeth I
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans. Wednesday, December 19, 2012. The "Unseemly" Snake-Doctored Portrait of a Two-Faced Queen Elizabeth I. NPG 200 Queen Elizabeth I. No book has ever been written on the subject of Elizabethan overpaint; yet, when pressed, any competent art historian will admit th e. Tied by authority.” W. E also know that Elizabeth I's p. Ouncil passed specific laws banning "unseemly portraits" of their Q. How many portraits wer e subsequently overpainted? Conc eit. And t. Of the por...
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: The Prospero Portrait of William Shakespeare
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans. Thursday, November 6, 2014. The Prospero Portrait of William Shakespeare. And this would-be magician not only looked like William Shakespeare but was also wearing the identical rabato collar that Shakespeare famously wears in the authenticated 1623 Droeshout Engraving. Above: NPG 2035 Called Phineas Pett. NPG 2035 and the 1623 Droeshout Engraving. This curious portrait, NPG 2035. But is that an accurate description of this painting? Or is it a shipwreck? Illustrati...
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: Edward de Vere or Sir Walter Raleigh?: Peake's Mysterious Man in White
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans. Monday, December 17, 2012. Edward de Vere or Sir Walter Raleigh? Peake's Mysterious Man in White. This is o ne of. My favorite Elizabethan portraits, and yet, because it is privately owned, I know nothing about its history or pr ovenance. Here we have a courtier, in ruffleted sleeves and French cartwheel collar (c.1570's), standing in what appears to. Be the Tower of London with Queen Elizabeth I lurking. Behind him ,. Edward de Vere and Sir Walter R aleigh,. Be de...
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: A Curiously Pompous Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans. Tuesday, October 14, 2014. A Curiously Pompous Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney. Above: the Bolton Museum portrait of Sir Philip Sidney. The Bolton Museum portrait of Sir Philip Sidney. Is attributed to either Thomas de Critz or his son John. It is one of three similar port. Belonging to Knebworth House and Penshurst P. As a younger man, Sidney had attended, along with the E. Arls of Southampton, Essex, and Oxford, and even the gnomish Robert Cecil, the outstanding sc...
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: Does This Mysterious 1602 Dual Portrait Depict William Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton?
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans. Tuesday, January 1, 2013. Does This Mysterious 1602 Dual Portrait Depict William Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton? One last post before a two- wee k. I found this portrait, a rare dual portrait, in an old sales catalog from Philip Morris. The background appeared to be. Overpainted, and the background is where you '. D expect to find family heraldry. In a father-and-son portrait. The matching armor was rare. But what really. Click on photo for larger image.
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: The Skinny on the New Studly Portrait of Shakespeare Gardening: Real or Imagined?
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. The Skinny on the New Studly Portrait of Shakespeare Gardening: Real or Imagined? I AM SHAKESPEARE NOW DROP THAT GUN! Update: here is much more detailed article in The Guardian. Front End Leaf: Dioscorides (right) Folger Shakespeare Library. Dedication to Lord Burghley (Folger Library). According to the BBC some of the figures represented on the book cover depict:. They are the author Gerard, Rembert Dodoens, a renowned Flemish botanist, and ...
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: Update on the Identification of John Dee as the Naked Angel Censored from a Portrait of the Prince of Wales
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans. Thursday, December 18, 2014. Update on the Identification of John Dee as the Naked Angel Censored from a Portrait of the Prince of Wales. The most popular post on this blog. Concerns John Dee and his possible identification as the naked angel censored beneath overpaint for centuries in a portrait by Robert Peake. Recently while exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Gallery. Peake's portrait of Prince Henry is kept at Parham House in West Sussex. John Dee...
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Edward Lear 200 years
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News, reviews, previews. William MB Berger Prize. Current Issue - contents. Edward Lear 200 years. Index to the British Art Journal. Edward Lear and Ideals of Art Theory. In the Development of English Landscape Painting. Edward Lear (1812-88) was born on 12 or possibly 13 May 1812,. The twentieth of twenty-one children. Reflects on his life and art, to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth. And that ‘nature herself is not to be too closely copied’ [ii]. Indeed, Reynolds went so far as to warn his stude...
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