Images of Elizabeth
Work produced by Theatrical and Stage Make Up Students at Thomas Danby College in Leeds, now Leeds City College in 2008.
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Images of Elizabeth - The Story Behind the Images
In preparation for our new Tudor Gallery the Royal Armouries approached Thomas Danby College to creatively design different images of Elizabeth.
As a museum of Arms and Armour, the concept of monarchy and how it is depicted is key to us. In our new Tudor Gallery we hope to tell the stoty of not only Henry VIII, but also Elizabeth as well. The work the students engaged in helped to bring alive some of the ideas we were thinking about for the new gallery.
We gave the students a view of the different images of Elizabeth, and the sorts of messages each image gave. Students then had to research, plan and deliver the models and makeup for their assessment.
We think that they did a cracking job....I particularly like the image of Elizabeth as an old woman at the bottom oif the page. If you enlarge it, you can see the blue veins that Elizabeth would have painted on her face to 'look good'!! (Yes it's true!)
I have included a few images of Elizabeth here form the National Portrait Gallery, but have a look and see if you can guess where the students took their inspiration form!
Queen Elizabeth I by Unknown artist, circa 1600 (circa 1559?)
from National Portrait Gallery
Reigned 1558-1603; painting; oil on panel; This painting is known as ‘The Coronation portrait’, and shows the Queen crowned, wearing the cloth of gold which she wore at her coronation on 15 January 1559, which had previously been worn by Mary I. She holds the rb and sceptre, symbols of her authority. The portrait appears to have been painted in about 1600, and is probably a copy of a lost original of c.1559.; Crowns and tiaras; Royalty and Society; Monarchs
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Queen Elizabeth I attributed to George Gower, circa 1588
from National Portrait Gallery
Reigned 1558-1603; painting; oil on panel; The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth came to the throne on the death of her half-sister, Mary I, in 1558 and reigned until 1603. This portrait was painted to commemorate the famous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and originally extended further on either side. By the time that it entered the Gallery's collection it had been reduced in size and the scenes over each of Elizabeth's shoulders had been painted out. The cropped scenes showed, on the left, the English fire ships being sent out against the Spanish in the Channel, and on the right, the Armada being wrecked off the coast of Scotland or Ireland. ; Jewellery, Montacute House; Royalty and Society; Monarchs
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