in which Paul Scofield played the lead role of Sir Thomas More (canonized by the Catholic Church in 1935). Cromwell, using perjury among other things, prosecuted More in a process that led to the ...

Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Thomas More, 1527. Courtesy: The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Michael Bodycomb In 2016, I moved to the US. America’s BQ is definitely the Q I found most difficult ...

The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than London’s Sir John Soane museum, broader in scope and ...

Holbein the Younger's portraits of Sir Thomas More on the left and Sir Thomas Cromwell on the right, on opposite sides of the mantel, are re-hung precisely as Henry Clay Frick had hung them.

Initially he joined the French army as a mercenary but soon withdrew and found more suitable employment in Italy ... a portrait of himself by the famed German artist Hans Holbein, painter to the king.

QUESTION: Thomas More is depicted very differently in Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. Which is closest to the truth? The depictions of Sir Thomas More in these ...

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Aside from the mercurial nature of Henry VIII, schemers such as Thomas More, the Pole family and “Wily Winchester ... from Henry VIII’s elder sister Margaret Tudor. Possibly Sir Keir Starmer could ...

On 10 June 1540, Thomas ... by Hans Holbein the Younger) heaped sexual humiliation on the king – and Thomas Cromwell took the blame (Photo by Roger-Viollet/TopFoto) The symmetry of the diplomatic ...

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Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Katherine Howard, Hans Holbein the Younger The first ... was heavily connected to the downfall of Thomas Cromwell, Henry’s chief minister between 1533-40. Instead it makes ...

The main thrust of the story involves a knight called Sir Percival ... in the house showing Thomas, his son and his wife. Tradition held that the painting was by Hans Holbein.