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Article about Double Take at the NPG

Posted on 3rd July 2012 by Tamise

Artlyst has an article about the new ‘Double Take’ exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition features 2 portraits of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Artlyst – NPG PRESENTS DOUBLE TAKE VERSIONS AND COPIES OF TUDOR PORTRAITS

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Over at On the Tudor Trail

Posted on 3rd July 2012 by Tamise

Natalie has posted about the first part of her recent trip to the UK and the Tudor places she visited.

On the Tudor Trail – Where History Happened Day 1

She also has a guest article by historian and author, Alison Weir, whose new historical novel, ‘A Dangerous Inheritance’ has just been published in the UK.

On the Tudor Trail – Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Days’ Queen

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Books On Sale: Her Highness, the Traitor by Susan Higginbotham

Posted on 29th June 2012 by Tamise

29th June – Her Highness, the Traitor by Susan Higginbotham

‘Jane Dudley’s husband, the Duke of Northumberland, becomes the most powerful man in England, while Frances Grey perchs with her daughter Jane dangerously close to the throne. But when Mary Tudor asserts her own right to the crown, Frances and Joan find that the lives of their husbands and children are in mortal danger. The story of the women behind the crowning of Jane Grey, this novel is an illuminating tale of ambition gone awry.’

From Amazon.co.uk

Further details – Susan Higginbotham

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Further details – Amazon.co.uk

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Double Take: Versions and Copies of Tudor Portraits at National Portrait Gallery

Posted on 26th June 2012 by Tamise

As reported in May, the Double Take exhibition, featuring portraits of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn opens today at the National Portrait Gallery.

The exhibition is free and will be on display in Room 2.

The National Portrait Gallery website says:

‘This display brings together five pairs of near identical portraits in order to explore how and why multiple versions and copies of portraits were made in the sixteenth century. Portraits of prominent Tudor sitters from the Gallery’s collection: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Archbishop William Warham, the merchant Thomas Gresham and Lord Treasurer Thomas Sackville, are paired with portraits that have been generously loaned from other collections.

These portraits were produced to satisfy a demand for images of monarchs and prominent courtiers that often lasted long after the sitter’s death. Technical analysis undertaken as part of the Making Art in Tudor Britain project has used dendrochronology, infrared reflectography, x-radiography and photomicroscopy to explore the process by which these works were made and to discover which are contemporary versions of portraits, and which are later copies.’

From National Portrait Gallery

Further details – National Portrait Gallery