The Elizabethan Image : An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603Author: Strong, Roy Europe Published on 11 June 2019 by Yale University Press in the United States. Hardback 224 pages, 230 colour illus. 254 x 191 0g Fifty years after his seminal Tate gallery London exhibition, 'The Elizabethan Image', leading authority Roy Strong returns with fresh eyes to the subject closest to his heart, The Virgin Queen, her court and our first Elizabethan ageFrom celebrated portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and

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