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| 2601 |
 | The badge of Anne Boleyn
Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive
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| 2602 |
 | The Badge of Anne of Cleves
Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive
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| 2603 |
 | The Badge of Catherine of Aragon
Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive
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| 2604 |
 | The Badge of Jane Seymour
Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive
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| 2605 |
 | The Badge of Katherine Parr
Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive
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| 2606 |
 | The Badge of Kathryn Howard
Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive
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| 2607 |
 | The Battle of Actium
by Lorenzo Castro, 1672, National Maritime Museum, London
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| 2608 |
 | The coat of arms of Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester
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| 2609 |
| The coat of arms of Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester
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| 2610 |
| The coat of arms of Robert de Sablé.
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| 2611 |
 | The County of Edessa in the context of the other states of the Near East in 1135.
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| 2612 |
 | The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by the French Romantic painter, Paul Delaroche, 1833
DELAROCHE, Paul
(b. 1797, Paris, d. 1859, Paris)
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
1833
Oil on canvas, 246 x 297 cm
National Gallery, London
Anglomania was in fashion in France in the 1820s and 1830s. Interest in British history, fuelled by the novels of Sir Walter Scott, was further stimulated by parallels drawn between recent events in France and the turbulent accounts of Tudors, Stuarts and the Civil War. The pictorial representation of British history may have been pioneered in Britain, but it was the Frenchman Paul Delaroche who gained a European reputation with the grand scenes drawn from it which he exhibited at the annual Paris Salon between 1825 and 1835. Popularised through mass-produced engravings, these set pieces, combining ostentatious antiquarianism with the pseudo-realism of bourgeois melodrama, in turn influenced the painters of national history in mid-Victorian Britain.
The painting depicts the last moments on 12 February 1554 in the life of the seventeen-year old Jane Grey, a great granddaughter of Henry VII who was proclaimed Queen of England upon the death of young King Edward VI, a Protestant like herself. She reigned for nine days in 1553, but, through the machinations of the partisans of Henry VIII's Catholic daughter, Mary Tudor, she was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death in the Tower of London.
Delaroche, who based the painting on a sixteenth-century Protestant martyrology, has falsified the historical account the better to appeal to his contemporaries. Lady Jane Grey, a humanist-educated young married woman, was in fact executed out of doors. Attended by two gentlewomen, probably no less stoical than she, she resolutely made her own way to the block. She could not have worn a white satin dress of nineteenth-century cut with a whalebone corset, and her hair would have been tucked up, not streaming down over her shoulders. But a painting cannot be judged by the criteria of historical accuracy. Much more applicable to this particular picture are the standards of popular melodrama and tableau vivant.
As on a stage, the heroine gropes her way towards the audience, gently guided by the elderly Constable of the Tower whose massive, dark, male presence acts as a foil to her own. A spotlight trained on her from above complements the dim stage lighting, reflecting from her immaculate dress and the straw which spills over into the front row of the stalls. The emotions of each actor are carefully delineated and distinguished, and we are left in no doubt as to the character of each even of the lady in the background who turns her back on the terrible sight.
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Author: DELAROCHE, Paul
Title: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Form: painting
Time-line: 1801-1850
School: French
Type: historical
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| 2613 |
| The Expansion of the House of Mamikonian
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| 2614 |
 | The family of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
The family of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
All seven of their children are shown, including the three that died very young:
Edmund, Elizabeth and Catherine
Royal Collection © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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| 2615 |
 | The Family of Henry VIII c. 1545
The Family of Henry VIII c. 1545, painted by an unknown artist, Oil on canvas, 141 x 355 cm.
Left to Right: 'Mother Jak', The Lady Mary, Prince Edward, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, The Lady Elizabeth and Wil Somers
The Royal Collection; On display at Hampton Court Palace
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| 2616 |
 | The Holy Roman Empire at Otto's death
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| 2617 |
 | The Inquisition was introduced in Portugal by John III in 1536, after hesitations from Rome.
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| 2618 |
 | The kingdom of Chlothar
The kingdom of Chlothar at the start of his reign (yellow). By 613 he had inherited or conquered all of the coloured portions of the map.
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| 2619 |
| The Lordship of Ireland in 1450
The Lordship of Ireland in 1450
Norman Lordships and native kingdoms.
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| 2620 |
 | The marriage of Humphrey and Isabella
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| 2621 |
| The monastery William founded in 804 and entered in 806.
Romanesque apse of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, originally Gellone, the monastery William founded in 804 and entered in 806.
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| 2622 |
 | The monastery William founded in 804 and entered in 806.
Romanesque apse of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, originally Gellone, the monastery William founded in 804 and entered in 806.
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 | The Sacrifice of Noah
BASSANO, Jacopo (b. ca. 1515, Bassano, d. 1592, Bassano)
Oil on canvas; Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten, Potsdam-Sanssouci
This work is typical of Bassano's mature painting. The painter uses the biblical episode of Noah coming out of the ark to paint yet again a huge number of animals. This type of composition, where the subject is obviously only an excuse for painting the countryside and nature, especially animals, was a huge success in the art market of the day. Jacopo Bassano and his sons continued to produce many such scenes.
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| 2624 |
 | The Somerset House Conference, 1604
(Juan de Velasco Frias; Juan De Tassis, C. Villa Mediana; Alessandro Robida; Charles De Ligne, C. Aremberg; Jean Richardot; Louis Vereyken; Thomas Sackville, E. Dorset; Charles Howard, E. Nottingham, Henry Howard, E. Northampton; Charles Blount, E. Devonshire and Robert Cecil, E. Salisbury)
Unknown artist
oil on canvas
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| 2625 |
 | The tomb of Sir George Manners and his wife Anne Plantagenet
St. George Chapel
Windsor Castle
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| 2626 |
 | The tomb of Sir George Manners and his wife Anne Plantagenet
St. George Chapel
Windsor Castle
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| 2627 |
 | Thelma
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| 2628 |
 | Theobald I of Navarre, King of Navarre
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| 2629 |
 | Theobald II, Count of Champagne
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| 2630 |
 | Theodo of Bavaria
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| 2631 |
 | Theodora Bandy
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| 2632 |
 | Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina
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| 2633 |
 | Theodora Komnene
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| 2634 |
 | Theodore I Laskaris
Portrait of Theodore I from a 15th-century manuscript
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| 2635 |
 | Theodore I of Russia
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| 2636 |
 | Theodore-Feodor-boris,.jpg
Painting titled (Theodore) Feodor Ioannovich presents a golden chain to Boris Godunov by Aleksey D. Kivshenko (1851-96)
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 | Theodoric I, Duke of Upper Lorraine
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| 2638 |
 | Theodoric the Great
Justinian I; mosaic in Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna. This may be a modified portrait of Theodoric.
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| 2639 |
 | Theodosius I "The Great"
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| 2640 |
 | Theodosius II
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| 2641 |
 | Theophano and Leo VI
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| 2642 |
 | Theophylactus of Tusculum Pope Benedict IX
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| 2643 |
 | Theophylactus, Pope Benedict VIII
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| 2644 |
 | Theresa
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| 2645 |
 | Theresa of Portugal, Countess of Flanders
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| 2646 |
 | Theresa of Portugal, Countess of Portugal, 'Queen of Portugal'
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| 2647 |
| Thetis Dipping the Infant Achilles into the River Styx
Thetis Dipping the Infant Achilles into the River Styx (ca. 1625), Peter Paul Rubens
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| 2648 |
| Thetis the Nereid
THETIS, NEREID MOTHER OF ACHILLES
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| 2649 |
 | The_children_of_Charles_I_of_England-painting_by_Sir_Anthony_van_Dyck_in_1637.jpg
Painting of Charles I's children. The future Charles II is depicted at centre, stroking the dog.
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| 2650 |
 | Thierry (Theodoric) II
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