Renaissance England is inseparable from the reign of King Henry VIII, the notorious monarch who famously had six wives—most of whom met unfortunate ends. Initially married to Catherine of Aragon ...

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne. As two new ...

A museum in Hartford is now featuring a famous portrait of Henry VIII. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) is currently on display.

It was this portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger that famously sealed the deal on the marriage between the then 24-year-old Anne and 48-year-old King Henry VIII. Anne, born Anne von der Mark ...

The artist was Henry VIII's painter and the most influential in Tudor England. Holbein painted defining portraits of Henry, his six wives and other figures such as Sir Thomas More. It is thought ...

But it was the background of the photo, not the figures in it, that caught Busiakiewicz’s attention: Next to a door marked by a neon exit sign hung a portrait of the English king Henry VIII ...

"Henry VIII and his wives were the first images ... "While a 16th-century portrait painter like Hans Holbein would use his technical skill to impress the court and gain royal favor, in the 20th ...

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In the recent musical Six, Henry VIII’s queens are solo singers ... a 16th-century copy of Holbein’s iconic (now lost) swagger portrait, standing in aggressive posture, legs wide apart ...

The Hartford museum is hosting an event called Gallery Talk – Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII with Matthew Hargraves and Oliver Tostmann – on May 3. Wadsworth said the Henry VIII ...