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Portraits Of Queen Elizabeth I


The Queen's Likeness: Portraits of Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I became a public icon. Her likeness appeared on a large number of objects - from the coins in purses to large-scale painted portraits.

Queen Elizabeth I - Person - National Portrait Gallery

Reigned 1558-1603 The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth came to the throne on the death of her half-sister, Mary I. Her long reign, ...

Portraiture of Elizabeth I - Wikipedia

The portraiture of Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) spans the evolution of English royal portraits in the early modern period (1400/1500-1800), from the ...

Portraits of Elizabeth I: Fashioning the Virgin Queen - Smarthistory

The earliest surviving image of Elizabeth I was painted when she was a princess, about a year before her father died.

Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I | Royal Museums Greenwich

During the 1570s, portraits of Elizabeth began to function more overtly as propaganda or as homages to the Queen. Unlike her predecessors, Queen Elizabeth I ...

The Human Face of Elizabeth I - The Tudor Travel Guide

The Hampden portrait was an important full-length panel of the queen, made in the early 1560s. It was one of the first official court images of the young ...

Symbolism in portraits of Queen Elizabeth I

Pearls symbolise Elizabeth's chastity and connect her to Cynthia, the Greek goddess of the Moon, who was a virgin and therefore seen as 'pure'.

Elizabeth I Sieve Portrait | Folger Shakespeare Library

This magnificent portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is the earliest of several paintings that show her holding a sieve. It was painted by George Gower in 1579.

Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Part 1: Young Elizabeth (1545-1572)

Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I of England; Elizabeth as Princess and early years of her reign.

Encountering the Queen: Portraits of Elizabeth I - YouTube

In this series of films Dr Tarnya Cooper, the National Portrait Gallery's Chief Curator and Curator of Sixteenth Century Portraits, ...

Queen Elizabeth I Portraits of the Last Tudor | DailyArt Magazine

One of the most important portraits of Queen Elizabeth I is the Darnley Portrait of c. 1575. It is believed that this was one of few portraits ...

The Hidden Meanings in the Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I - YouTube

Discover the hidden messages and symbolism in the famous portraits of Elizabeth I - the powerful Tudor queen. Elizabeth I is one of the most ...

Elizabeth I, Queen of England - Toledo Museum of Art

... Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558–1603) is a dazzling and commanding figure in this portrait by an unknown artist. Elizabeth had only a few official portraits ...

Elizabeth I: Queen + Icon - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

In the Waddesdon portrait, Elizabeth's dark velvet dress provides a suitable contrast for the glistening gemstones covering her person. Enameled ...

Queen Elizabeth I - National Portrait Gallery Shop

Queen Elizabeth I ('Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses') Portrait Print. From £6.00. Shop now.

Elizabeth I: Portraying the Virgin Queen's Rise to Power - TheCollector

Also known as the Pelican Portrait, the painting by English goldsmith limner Nicholas pictures the queen wearing one of her favorite emblems: ...

Gallery of Elizabeth I Portraits - World History Encyclopedia

1558-1603 CE). The portrait takes its name from the brooch the queen is wearing over her dress studded with pearls and square-cut jewels. The ...

Queen Elizabeth I - National Portrait Gallery, London - Art UK

Queen Elizabeth I by unknown artist, late 16th C/early 17th C, from National Portrait Gallery, London.

Restoration of Famed 'Rainbow Portrait' of Queen Elizabeth I ...

The “Rainbow Portrait” of Queen Elizabeth I has been restored and returned to Hatfield House, revealing hidden details from the Tudor era.

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I - Leicester Galleries

Rejecting the Renaissance advances in perspective and shading which had been introduced to England by Hans Holbein, Elizabeth cultivated a complex iconography, ...