The King's Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group PortraitThe 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. |
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and the Pope A Painting | 13 |
another Textpicture | 23 |
Bible Illustrations | 37 |
Art | 49 |
and Heemskerck | 67 |
The Idolatry of Rome | 94 |
Londons Idol | 108 |
John Foxe and The Acts and Monuments of 1570 | 149 |
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The King's Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait Margaret Aston No preview available - 1993 |
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