The entrance to the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” is dominated by a pair of bronze angels bearing candlesticks and an imposing nine foot high ...

“The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit, postponed for two years because of Covid, offers.more than 100 exquisite objects ...

A jeweled and embroidered “gabled hood’' frames Seymour’s face tightly. Adding to the mood of luxury and piety in the painting are a jeweled necklace and pendant pinned to Seymour’s bodice that spells ...

The Tudor dynasty was short in duration, but it has become perennial in memory. Just over a century passed between 1485, when Henry Tudor became Henry VII, and 1603, when his granddaughter Elizabeth I ...

The Tudor dynasty ruled England for 118 years, just three generations, but leaving an indelible mark on the country and embodying for many the paradigmatic English monarchy. From Henry VII to ...

It was a consequential 118 years. Emerging after England’s War of the Roses, the Tudor dynasty — lasting from 1485 to 1603 — saw only three generations rule the country. And yet it was a time of major ...

New York City may never sleep, but its tourist hot spots usually slow down quite a bit in the gloomy, gray depths of January. The crowds at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its bastion of culture known ...

When a choreographer’s centennial year rolls around, the public can count on a few sure things. There will be at least one celebratory video montage, plus one earnest, yet chummy panel discussion. A ...

Rachel Delman has been researching Collyweston Palace for over a decade. Her doctoral research on the site was funded by a full Arts and Humanities Research Council award at the University of Oxford ...

Philip James de Loutherbourg's 19th-century depiction of the Battle of Bosworth Field highlights the chaotic nature of the clash Wikimedia Commons In the early morning hours of August 22, 1485, 331 ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Wall Street history buffs have been granted a gift by the Internet gods: the unearthing of Trader, a 25 ...