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Durham Cathedral hosts bat watch and after-dark bat walk as part of a summer programme

Durham Cathedral hosts bat watch and after-dark bat walk as part of a summer programme
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Dans les coulisses du mariage de Charlène et Albert

Dans les coulisses du mariage de Charlène et Albert
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Tudors to Windsors at National Maritime Museum review: power portraits from Anne Boleyn to Kate Middleton

If you want a summary of the last five hundred years of English history, here is just the thing: the nation’s story told through portraits of its monarchs. The exhibition starts with an insightful Flemish portrait of Henry VII which was intended to procure him a second wife (essentially his dating profile pic) and ends with Chris Levine’s huge lightbox print of the Queen with her eyes closed, looking, it must be said, quite exhausted. In between.

Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits exhibition explores how art has shaped our understanding of monarchy

National Portrait Gallery, London Today, we are all extremely familiar with what our Royal Family looks like, thanks to advances in photography and the advent of the internet and television, yet 500 years ago, the public only knew what their King (or Queen) looked like thanks to royal portraiture. Employing court artists to capture their likeness, most monarchs utilised coded symbolism to get important messages about who they were across: the future King James II was painted as the Roman God of War, Mars, to showcase his strength, while Queen Anne was dressed up to look like her famous predecessor, Queen Elizabeth I.

William Fox Talbot collection sells for nearly £1 5 million at auction, a new record

William Fox Talbot collection sells for nearly £1.5 million at auction, a new record April 23, 2021 A trove of nearly 200 early photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot quadrupled its pre-auction estimate to achieve $1,956,000 (£1,411,557) this week, a new auction record for the seminal British photography pioneer. Gifted by the photographer to his sister and remaining in the family since, the collection made its auction debut as a highlight of Sotheby’s 50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs sale. Horatia playing Amélina’s harp (1843) – Fox Talbot gifted the collection to her back in the day The sale set a new artist record for Talbot, and a new benchmark for a work of 19th century photography at auction.

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