PMC Postdoc Lecture – Christina J Faraday

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As the third speaker in our new Postdoctoral Fellowship Lecture Series, Christina J Faraday will present on her research project “Writing A New Story of Tudor Art”, funded by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the PMC.

The story of Tudor art might seem familiar: from Holbein’s vision of Henry VIII to the arcane symbolism of Elizabeth I’s portraits. In recent years, however, this traditional view has been broadened, revealing the extensive use of portraits by the middling sort, the proliferation of narrative imagery in domestic decoration and the widespread use of textiles, luxury imports and printed media to convey messages about religion, status and identity. Yet despite these revelations, false divisions are still driven between the “finer” arts of the court, regional craftsmen and popular visual and material culture. The artistic production of the reigns of Henry VII, Edward VI and Mary I are often overshadowed by their more iconic neighbours. In this talk Faraday will bridge some of these disjunctions, showing how objects from a range of contexts took part in the same cultural conversations, and returning to the spotlight artistic developments under the “forgotten Tudors”.