![]() NARRATOR: And another referred to Henry Tudor as.Ĭaptain of rebels and traitors, descended of bastard blood…īut Henry’s new dynasty gained recognition from the world and it achieved this partly through the magnificence of its art. Henry’s enemies describe him in damning terms:Īn unknown Welshman whose father I never knew… Henry Tudor has just seized the throne of England. Welcome to The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. At the same time, it reveals the high political stakes of Tudor patronage and the cosmopolitan world of artists and merchants who served the court. This exhibition evokes the richly layered interior of a Tudor palace in order to explore the remarkable art of the English Renaissance. At times guilty of religious intolerance and violence themselves, the Tudors benefitted in their pursuit of the finest tapestries, books, paintings, and armor from religious wars on the European continent that periodically drove waves of talented artists to seek safety in England. Painfully aware that their claim to the throne was tenuous and that the prospect of a return to civil war loomed around every corner, the Tudor monarchs devoted vast resources to crafting their public image as divinely ordained rulers. ![]() ![]() The second Tudor monarch, Henry VIII, brought about England’s break with the Roman Catholic church, while his daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth I, were the first two women to rule the country in their own right. The dynasty emerged from the devastation of the Wars of the Roses, which ended in 1485 when Henry Tudor seized the throne. ![]() Though the Tudor dynasty ruled for only three generations, it oversaw the transformation of England from an impoverished backwater to a major European power operating on a global stage. ![]()
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