Painted portrait of Elizabeth I with the text "The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England" Painted portrait of Elizabeth I with the text "The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England"
Exhibition

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

October 10, 2022 – January 8, 2023

Previously on view at , 899
Free with Museum admission

Exhibition Objects

Furnishing Textile, Three loom widths of velvet cloth of gold with allucciolato effect and bouclé loops of gilded silver metal-wrapped threads

Furnishing Textile

late 15th–mid-16th century
Field Armor of King Henry VIII 
of England (reigned 1509–47), Steel, gold, textile, 
leather, Italian, Milan or Brescia
Andromache and Priam Urging Hector Not to Go to War (from Scenes from the Story of the Trojan War), Pasquier Grenier of Tournai, Wool warp, wool wefts with a few silk wefts., South Netherlandish

Andromache and Priam Urging Hector Not to Go to War (from Scenes from the Story of the Trojan War)

Probably produced through Pasquier Grenier of Tournai (Burgundian, died 1493)
ca. 1470–90
Cup with Cover, R W, Mother-of-pearl, with gilded silver mounts

Cup with Cover

R W (British)
1590–91
Wine Cup on a High Foot (Tazza), Gilded silver
Cup and cover, Affabel Partridge, Porcelain, gilded silver

Cup and cover

Mounts by Affabel Partridge (British, active ca. 1551–1580)
Chinese porcelain, Ming dynasty, ca. 1507–66, British mounts ca. 1570
Two-handled bowl from Burghley House, Lincolnshire, Hard-paste porcelain, gilded silver

Two-handled bowl from Burghley House, Lincolnshire

Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585
Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire, Hard-paste porcelain, gilded silver

Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire

Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585
Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabee Brothers and Their Mother, Dirck Vellert, Stained glass

Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabee Brothers and Their Mother

Designed and executed by Dirck Vellert (Netherlandish, Amsterdam (?) ca. 1480/85–ca. 1547)
ca. 1530–35
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47), Hans Holbein the Younger, Steel, gold, leather, copper alloys, British, Greenwich
Bearing Cloth, Anonymous, Silk satin embroidered with silver and gilded silver metal-wrapped threads

Bearing Cloth

Anonymous
ca. 1600
The Lewknor Table Carpet, Wool and silk
Chess and tric-trac game board, Wood, ivory, bone, mother-of-pearl
The Christ Child Pressing the Wine of the Eucharist, Linen warp;  wool, silk, and gilt weft yarns, South Netherlandish
Portrait Bust of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Pietro Torrigiano, Polychrome terracotta

Portrait Bust of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester

Pietro Torrigiano (Italian, Florence 1472–1528 Seville)
1510–15
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), Hans Holbein the Younger, Oil and gold on oak

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)
1532
Ellen Maurice (1578–1626), Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Oil on oak

Ellen Maurice (1578–1626)

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (Flemish, Bruges 1561–1635/36 London)
1597
Jerkin, Leather, silk, linen, cotton, Western European

Jerkin

Western European
ca. 1580
Pair of gloves, Leather, satin worked with silk and precious metal thread, seed pearls; satin, couching, and darning stitches; metal bobbin lace; paper
Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery, Hans Holbein the Younger, Oil and gold on parchment, laid down on linden

Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery

Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)
1532–35
William Roper (1493/94–1578), Hans Holbein the Younger, Vellum laid on card

William Roper (1493/94–1578)

Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)
1535–36
Margaret Roper (Margaret More, 1505–1544), Hans Holbein the Younger, Vellum laid on playing card

Margaret Roper (Margaret More, 1505–1544)

Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)
1535–36
Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Robert Devereux (1566–1601), Second Earl of Essex, Nicholas Hilliard, Vellum laid on card

Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Robert Devereux (1566–1601), Second Earl of Essex

Nicholas Hilliard (British, Exeter ca. 1547–1619 London)
1588
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), 
Third Earl of Cumberland, Jacob Halder, Steel, gold, leather, textile, British, Greenwich

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Made under the direction of Jacob Halder (British, master armorer at the royal workshops at Greenwich, documented in England 1558–1608)
1586
Blackwork Embroidery, Linen embroidered with silk and gilded silver precious metal-wrapped threads
Astronomicum Caesareum, Michael Ostendorfer, Hand-colored woodcuts

Astronomicum Caesareum

Various Artists
May 1540
Queen Elizabeth I, Crispijn de Passe the Elder, Engraving; second state of three

Queen Elizabeth I

Various Artists
1592
Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington (1592–1614), in the Hunting Field, Robert Peake the Elder, Oil on canvas