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Inside the Sumptuous Costumes of ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’
Costume designer Joanna Eatwell guides us through the Tudor fashion in the sequel to 2015's saga about the court of Henry ...
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What the Frick? The Stateside answer to The Wallace Collection reopens after a $220 million renovation
New York is abuzz with the freshly reopened Frick Collection, the Fifth Avenue mansion once owned by one of America's ...
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Young British flock push Catholics to outnumber Anglicans for first time since Henry VIII
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. London: In the pews of Britain’s churches, a quiet revolution is taking place. Over the past six years, a shift has occurred among ...
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Interview: Damian Lewis on Playing Henry VIII
“Don’t get too close to the king,” cautioned The Mirror and the Light’s Damian Lewis, who returned to his role of King Henry VIII ten years ... and we used the Holbein portraits of him ...
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Famous Henry VIII portrait on display at Hartford museum
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein’s Portrait ... Wadsworth said the Henry VIII portrait "reveals the grand opulence of the king's reign." ...
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The Characters of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light
Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII in Wolf Hall ... to Henry VIII in Wolsey’s futile attempt to regain royal favor. Hans Holbein the Younger: A master portraitist whose skill captures the faces ...
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Who are the real queens of 'Six'?
The six wives of Henry VIII take center stage in a smash musical ... he sent his favorite court painter, Hans Holbein the Younger, to the German duchy, and he approved based on the portrait.
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Wolf Hall: how did the real Thomas Cromwell die?
The story chronicles the life of King Henry ... which reports claiming that Hans Holbein had painted Anne more flattering than she was in real life, to rumours that Henry was ashamed after ...
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII Get Their Due
The 16th-century English Tudor king’s initial divorce ... length portraits, such as Hans Holbein the Younger’s “The Ambassadors” (1533) or that of Henry VIII himself (1537), from Holbein ...
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Historian Spots Lost 16th Century Portrait Of King Henry VIII In X Post
A missing portrait of King ... "Henry VIII's face commands a particularly strong presence in the composition, and its considerable size is suggestive perhaps that a cartoon from the Holbein ...
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Six Lives, National Portrait Gallery review — Henry VIII’s wives become queens of their own domain
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the recent musical Six, Henry VIII’s queens are solo singers (“Don’t Lose Ur Head”, “Heart of ...
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The Bloody, Bawdy History of Henry VIII Onscreen
For someone who sat on the English throne for almost 40 years, Henry VIII is far less famous for being a king than for being ... silhouette by referencing the Holbein portrait’s enormous puffed ...