The King's Bedpost : Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait
Editorial Reviews
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'... both a first rate piece of historical detection - quite as absorbing as any detective novel - and a splendid example of the part iconography can play in solving historical problems'. History Today
' ... brilliant and convincing ... The learning which underpins Dr Aston's carefully-written, well-illustrated and entirely accessible book is truly prodigious.' Sir Keith Thomas, The Guardian
'Margaret Aston claims no more for her book than a hypothesis or 'a walk around the painting', but it is much more ... She opens new insights into politics, religion and polemics in 16th century England and Europe ...' Kevin Sharpe, The Spectator
Book Description
The King's Bedpost is a lavishly-illustrated detective story about a painting. Edward VI and the Pope is an important and fascinating visual allegory of the Reformation; but when and why was it painted? Following up a sequence of clues to answer these questions, the author embarks on a fascinating and unusual voyage of historical exploration that takes the reader into book illustration and scriptural iconography, Tudor religion and politics, anti-papal propaganda and iconoclastic manoeuvres. The discovery of previously unrecognised pictorial sources conclusively re-dates the painting, and opens a wide-ranging discussion of art and image-making under Edward VI and Elizabeth I. A large and varied cast of characters joins the Tudor monarchs as the tale unfolds and the painting ultimately becomes the key to a series of hitherto locked doors.
The King's Bedpost : Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait,Margaret Aston,Cambridge University Press,052148457X,Art,Europe - Great Britain - General,General,History - General,Photography,British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700,England,History / Great Britain,Painting & paintings,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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