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Celebrating Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy

Melanie V Taylor

Dame Hilary Mantel DBE FRSL. Source Wikipedia. Immediate source: https://us.macmillan.com/author/hilarymantel In June 2024 The Wolf Hall Weekend will celebrate Dame Hilary Mantel's magnificent trilogy describing Thomas Cromwell’s rise and fall as Henry VIII's chief administrator at the beautiful 16th century Cadhay House, Devon.[1] Sir Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch’s superb biography of Cromwell, published in 2018, was described… Continue reading Celebrating Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy

Artists of Northern Europe, Flemish primitives, Illuminated manuscripts, Original Documents, Portraiture, Renaissance, Royal Portraits, Tudor portraiture

The difficulty identifying 16th portraits of ‘Unknown Ladies & Gentlemen’

Melanie V Taylor

Jacob Burkhardt revolutionized art and cultural history in the 19th century, emphasizing the importance of art in understanding societal contexts. Misattributions and unknown subjects in historical portraits persist, complicating scholarship. Modern technology aids in analysis, yet many identities remain elusive, highlighting the depth of art history beyond mere aesthetics.

Artists of Northern Europe, Original Documents, portrait miniature, Portraiture, Renaissance, Royal Portraits, Tudor portraiture

How we know the Tudor Royals from 1485 – 1558; and who painted them.

Melanie V Taylor

Articles in various publications have looked at Franny Moyle’s suggestion that Holbein left clues regarding the identification of one of his sitters of his miniatures being of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anna, Duchess of Cleves and not Katherine Howard as suggested by George Vertue writing in the 18th century. The recent article about Moyle’s theory… Continue reading How we know the Tudor Royals from 1485 – 1558; and who painted them.

Artists of Northern Europe, Illuminated manuscripts, Illumination of legal documents, portrait miniature, Portraiture, Renaissance, Royal Portraits, Symbols and emblems, Tudor portraiture

The origins of the Tudor portrait miniature

Melanie V Taylor

For those not familiar with the genre of the portrait miniature, let us first consider why and when these portraits became popular in England, and the various artists creating these images for the Tudor court. The half millennium saw a marked change from the religious themes of the medieval period to secular subjects inspired by… Continue reading The origins of the Tudor portrait miniature

Artists of Northern Europe, Flemish primitives, Illuminated manuscripts, Illumination of legal documents, portrait miniature, Portraiture, Royal Portraits, short stories, Tudor portraiture

Another Execution! – MV Taylor

Melanie V Taylor

This is a work of fiction, but the images referred to all exist as did all the characters and the executions to which they refer. Like other writers of historical fiction, I have taken events as my skeleton and dressed it with the clothes of a possible event, placing imagined words into the mouths of… Continue reading Another Execution! – MV Taylor