{"id":469,"date":"2014-09-28T07:28:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T07:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/?p=469"},"modified":"2014-09-28T07:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T07:28:21","slug":"the-tudors-as-weve-never-seen-them-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2014\/09\/28\/the-tudors-as-weve-never-seen-them-before\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tudors as we&#8217;ve never seen them before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/files\/2014\/09\/HenryVIII_3036527b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-470\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/files\/2014\/09\/HenryVIII_3036527b-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"HenryVIII_3036527b\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>If you click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/art\/11090152\/The-Tudors-as-weve-never-seen-them-before.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0you will get to Alastair Smart\u2019s article in the Daily Telegraph review of the National Portrait Gallery\u2019s\u00a0\u201cReal Tudors: Kings &amp; Queens Rediscovered\u201d\u00a0exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe curators are keen to stress how coloured our vision of the Tudor monarchs has become by the embellishments of film, theatre and other arts in the intervening centuries. Charles Laughton as the belching ruler in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v4tOb9J7W2k\" target=\"_blank\">The Private Life of Henry VIII<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 gnawing his way through chicken legs to Oscar glory \u2013 is a prime example.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<p><em>The aim of the new display, by contrast, is to consider how the monarchs would have been seen in their own time. Not simply by showing portraits from the NPG collection and beyond, but by applying to them the latest tools of scientific investigation: from dendrochronology and paint sampling to X-ray and infrared reflectographs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr Kydd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you click here\u00a0you will get to Alastair Smart\u2019s article in the Daily Telegraph review of the National Portrait Gallery\u2019s\u00a0\u201cReal Tudors: Kings &amp; Queens Rediscovered\u201d\u00a0exhibition. \u201cThe curators are keen to stress how coloured our vision of the Tudor monarchs has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2014\/09\/28\/the-tudors-as-weve-never-seen-them-before\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lizzie-in-the-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G99s-7z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}