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Queen Elizabeth I is known throughout history as one of the most famous British Queens.
2023
Tate Britain rehang review 鈥� this is now the museum where art goes to sleep
The Guardian May 23, 2023Tate Britain, London Once the provocative home of artistic sensation, the gallery is now vacuous, worthy and fundamentally dull. It even seems to disapprove of the very British art it used to promote.
2020
Actress Demi Moore stands sideways to the camera, one hand splayed around a breast, another cupping her 7-months-pregnant stomach.
The peculiarities of pregnancy in art, from corsets to belly pads and hidden bumps.
First Major Exhibition to Explore Representations of the Pregnant Female Body Opens at the Foundling Museum
ArtDaily Jan 26, 2020The Foundling Museum is presenting the first major exhibition to explore representations of the pregnant female body through portraits from the past 500 years, Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media which opened on 24 January 2020.
Several London shows focusing on representations of pregnancy and female parenting cast new light on these sometimes divisive themes
2019
The Foundling Museum is presenting the first major exhibition to explore representations of the pregnant female body through portraits from the past 500 years, opening in January 2020
2017
A controversial Degas goes on show; Basquiat gains momentum in the east; a new jewel for Scotland's crown
Telegraph Apr 04, 2017Britain will get its first opportunity to inspect a controversial sculpture believed to be by Edgar Degas later this month. The controversy dates back to the 1990s when the owner of the Valsuani Foundry near Paris cast several plasters which he found when he bought the...
2013
If you think the beauty myth is oppressive nowadays, picture what it was like to be a woman in Renaissance Europe.
We know the ageing Elizabeth I from the resplendent Ditchley Portrait (c.1592) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger that takes up a wall in the National Portrait Gallery.
Rare portrait of Elizabeth I owned by North Carolina Garden Club shown in Washington
Telegraph Feb 11, 2013A painting of a sixtysomething Queen Elizabeth I, depicting her with facial wrinkles, is being exhibited at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
2011
Eagerness to Buy Old Masters at Odds With Their Availability in Auctions
The New York Times Jul 08, 2011Art buyers rarely yearned for Old Masters as intensely as they appeared to do this week. Sadly, auction houses never had so few desirable pictures to offer them.
Record prices for George Stubbs and Thomas Gainsborough last night boosted an $80 million test of the auction market for Old Masters.
Record prices for George Stubbs and Thomas Gainsborough last night boosted an $80 million test of the auction market for Old Masters.