When we think of the Tudors, we think of majestic paintings in which they appear triumphant, ruffed, and dripping in finery. Across Renaissance Europe, portraiture was beginning to play a crucial role ...

Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting that simply begs to be decoded. The highly unusual Renaissance double portrait depicts two luxuriously clad Frenchmen standing on either ...

Street Art superstar Shepard Fairey showed up on an episode of Portlandia. The skit finds Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein promoting Shocking Art Supplies; an alternative supply store filled with ...

The first scholarly biography in more than 100 years of the man who immortalised the Tudor court does not disappoint Much of what we know, or think we know, about the court of Henry VIII comes ...