Changing Faces

The Elizabethans

S1 • E2    Sep 30, 1987
For the Elizabethans, portraits had to be functional - to prove ancestry and loyalty to the crown and to commemorate or celebrate. Philip Mould talks about the importance of symbolism, especially in portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, and shows how an Elizabethan would have read and understood the Rainbow Portrait at Hatfield House.

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