Tudor Art and Architecture

  • Introduction
  • Early Tudor Sculpture
  • Early Tudor Palaces
  • Mid-16thC Classicism in Tudor Building
  • Holbein at the Court of Henry VIII
  • Henry VIII and Royal Propaganda
  • The Reformation and the Enforcement of Policy
  • The Origins and Functions of the Portrait Miniature
  • Visit to Hampton Court
  • Nicholas Hilliard
  • Isaac Oliver
  • The Status of the Artist in Tudor England
  • Symbolism in Elizabethan Visual Culture
  • Tournaments and Royal Progresses
  • English Catholics and the Visual Arts
  • The Elizabethan Courtier House
  • Elizabethan Painting
  • Representing Elizabeth I
  • Hardwick Hall and the Countess of Shrewsbury
  • The Origins of Collecting in Tudor England

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