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“At the start of the period, concurrent with the accession of Henry IV (r. 1399–1413), England’s first Lancastrian king, Great Britain and Ireland are rife with internal tensions, including Welsh revolt, a series of baronial rebellions led by the Percy family of Northumberland, and ongoing warfare among the Anglo-Irish nobility. In 1415, Henry V (r. 1413–22) renews the war with France ...
Mary I, the future queen of England (r. 1553-1558), is born to parents Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. 1521: Lutheran writings begin to circulate in England. 1527 21 May Phillip II, the future king of England (r. 1554-1558), is born to parents Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and Isabella of Portugal. 1526
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The drawing underneath the paint layers is also very similar across the group. Infrared reflectography allows us to see that the artists have used extensive drawing to mark out the pattern before applying the paint. In general, the artist appear to have been more confident when marking out the faces, which are drawn in a less sketchy way than the c...
In terms of their design and composition, all four portraits relate to a series of woodcuts published in 1597, matching these designs more closely than others in the set (see below for more information on the woodcuts). The portrait of Henry III has a drooping eyelid, a physical condition that was recorded in medieval chronicles and repeated in six...
Further evidence that these portraits were produced as a group has been supplied by dendrochronology (tree-ring dating): the panel used for the portrait of Stephen is made of wood from two trees, one of which was also used to make the panel for the Henry III portrait, and the other, for the portrait of John. The two boards used to make the panel fo...
In each of these portraits the artists have painted the eyes, lips and eyebrows in full before painting the flesh around these features. This is an unusual method and has resulted in distinctive bold eyebrows in each of these sitters. There are some differences across the group in the way the paint has been handled, however, which rules out the pos...
Visually, the portraits of William I and Henry II look very much alike and both panels are slightly narrower than the rest of the set. In addition, there are close parallels in the style and techniques used for these two paintings. For example, the details on the gilding have been defined with brown lines in a similar manner in both cases. But the ...
Although the portraits of Richard II and Richard III are stylistically different overall, the gilding and the jewels in each case have been executed in a very similar way.
Category: 14th century. In the 13th-14th centuries the inhabitants of the bigger towns had to rely more and more on the neighbouring country-side for their foodstuffs and raw materials for their crafts. Trade between the town and the country-side began to develop. Now we shall learn more about: - the trade connections between the town and the ...
Oct 10, 2022 · 14th-century portraits. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Portraits: ( BCE) 8th century · 7th century · 6th century · 5th century · 4th century · 3rd century · 2nd century · 1st century · ( CE) 1st century · 2nd century · 3rd century · 4th century · 6th century · 7th century · 10th century · 11th century · 12th ...
European Timeline Post Dark Ages (1400-1750) As the western continent of Europe ascends from the crippling and intellectually stunting period of the dark ages (7th-13th century) they are ushered into an enlightened era of trade, science, culture, art and
e. England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the economy was in tatters and many of the towns abandoned. After several centuries of Germanic immigration ...
