Met Publications | Exhibition Catalogues*The Met Store The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

By Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker
with contributions by Marjorie E. Wieseman and Sarah Bochicchio

Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs used the arts to legitimize and glorify their tumultuous rule, from Henry VII’s bloody rise topower, through Henry VIII’s breach with the Roman Catholic Church, to the reign of the “Virgin Queen” Elizabeth I. With incisive scholarship and sumptuous newphotography, this book explores the extreme politics and outsize personalities of the Tudors, and how they used art in their diplomacy at home and abroad.Though their truly cosmopolitan courts attracted top artists and artisans from across Europe, the Tudors also nurtured a distinctly English aesthetic that isforever connected to the visual legacy of their…See More