The Tudors in Portraits

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Visitors to the Holburne Museum in Bath are having a close encounter with the most familiar faces in English history. A stunning exhibition, The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics, includes some of the most iconic Tudor portraits, evoking that torrid era of religious conflict and political intrigue.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb walks round the exhibition with curator Monserrat Pis Marcos to discuss the paintings and the turbulent lives of those portrayed.

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0:00.0	For today is not just the tutors I went on the road to visit the absolutely
0:07.1	gorgeous Hobernuseum in Bath. After dilly-dallying in their general collection I
0:13.1	popped upstairs to visit their wonderful little exhibition the tutors,
0:17.6	passion, power and politics. It's filled with portraits from the National
0:22.7	Portrait Gallery and elsewhere and is a who's who of Tudor England. There's the
0:27.4	two Henry's, Barley Drake, Sydney and Cecil, Cromwell and Crammer. There's the
0:33.0	Queen's Regiment, Mary Jane, Lisbeth and also Mary Queen of Scots and there are
0:37.8	three Queen's consults as well. The exhibition will be in Bath until May the 8th and
0:42.8	then it moves up to Liverpool and wherever you go and see it it's a wonderful
0:46.6	opportunity to go and look these people in the eye. I met the Hobern curator
0:51.9	Montserrat Pistman-Cos.
0:57.4	Montserrat here we are in Bath at the Hobern Museum. How is it that all these
1:05.4	masterpieces from the National Portrait Gallery and elsewhere are here in
1:10.0	this lovely little exhibition? Well considering that the National Portrait
1:13.7	Gallery is currently closed for refurbishment we enter in a part of the
1:16.9	partnership with them to stage this wonderful exhibition and be able to take
1:20.8	this portrait away from London for a little while and show them themselves
1:24.0	west. So it starts here in Bath and it will later move up to Liverpool. It will
1:28.5	indeed and it will expand so we have 27 works currently on this play and it will
1:33.4	become about a hand-grout object in Liverpool but the sections will be the same
1:39.0	and all the members of this cast will remain and will stay on. And I quite like a
1:43.0	small exhibition myself you can get around it you can look at things that close
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