"After Hundreds of Years, Unknown Woman in Tudor Portrait" Topic
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| Tango01 | 10 Feb 2021 8:29 p.m. PST |
…Identified as Mary Boleyn "Aportrait of an anonymous woman in Tudor garb has adorned the walls of Great Britain's most prominent royal residences for hundreds of years. Researchers had long thought that the sitter's identity was lost to history, but now, a new discovery has enabled experts to put a name to the face: Mary Boleyn, older sister of Anne Boleyn, the ill-fated second wife of Henry VIII. A team from the Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Paintings Project (JVDPPP) announced the find in a statement last month. The painting, previously known simply as Portrait of a Woman, is part of the United Kingdom's Royal Collection and currently hangs in Mary, Queen of Scots' bedchamber at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh…"
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| Dn Jackson | 10 Feb 2021 9:54 p.m. PST |
Interesting, but I'd have liked a better explanation as to why they think it's Mary. |
| Tango01 | 11 Feb 2021 11:56 a.m. PST |
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