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 | | The King's Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait by Margaret Aston ISBN-10: 9780521443753 ISBN-10: 0-521-44375-X ISBN-13: 9780521443753 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-44375-3 Hardcover 1994-01-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The King's Bedpost is a lavishly-illustrated detective story about a painting. Edward VI and the Pope is an important and fascinating visual allegory of the Reformation; but when and why was it painted? Following up a sequence of clues to answer these questions, the author embarks on a fascinating and unusual voyage of historical exploration that takes the reader into book illustration and scriptural iconography, Tudor religion and politics, anti-papal propaganda and iconoclastic manoeuvres. The discovery of previously unrecognised pictorial sources conclusively re-dates the painting, and opens a wide-ranging discussion of art and image-making under Edward VI and Elizabeth I. A large and varied cast of characters joins the Tudor monarchs as the tale unfolds and the painting ultimately becomes the key to a series of hitherto locked doors. | ||