The Stories Behind Paintings: Anne Boleyn's Complex Legacy
With the 'Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens' on at London's National Portrait Gallery, we go into another episode of The Stories Behind Paintings. Anne Boleyn was a complex character who many have tried to reduce to either seductress or martyr, and we don't even know what she really looked like. Join us as we explore her life story, and show her image has shaped the way she has been thought about through history.
Full list of works:
Unknown, Anne Boleyn, 1584-1603
Edouard Cibot, Anne Boleyn in the Tower, 1835
Unknown, King Henry VIII, c.1520
Michael Sittow, Catherine of Aragon, c.1500
The love letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; with notes, published 1906
John Shury, King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More, 1825
Unknown, Anne Boleyn, 1597-1618
Unknown, Anne Boleyn, Unknown
Workshop of Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth 1st, 1592
Unknown, The Molesely Set, Unknown
Jodie Turner-Smith as the queen in ‘Anne Boleyn’
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