Roy Strong

PREFACE The Cult of Elizabeth brings together six studies in Elizabethan portraiture and pageantry. When I first started to put this book together it was to consist only of new pieces, studies of the Procession Picture at Sherborne Castle, Hilliard's Young Man amongst Roses and the pageantry of...

Ex librisszel. A kötet gerince megtört. Hans Holbein the Younger is renowned for his portraits of Northern Europe's courtiers, thinkers and statesmen, but his output was far more various, and included book illustrations and jewellery designs. This book includes many different examples of his work.

Fedlapja enyhén megsárgult, szélei kissé megkoptak. 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....

of all the arts, architecture is the hardest to avoid. Yet, in a curious way, its very omnipresence can make it almost invisible. We take it for granted. Only when we go away from home or visit a place we don't know do we succeed in reopening our eyes to the things that surround us. Perhaps,...