Sunday Short Takes

Big story from a couple of weeks ago!

* Elizabeth I Armada portrait saved with help of 8,000 donors – A portrait of Elizabeth I has become public property, after an appeal helped raise

2 Comments:

  1. The Darnley reconstruction is interesting – looks like a surfer dude. Compare to a period portrait:

    http://www.historicalportraits.com/Gallery.asp?Page=Item&ItemID=919&Desc=Lord-Darnley-|-Adrian-Vanson

  2. Ha! Yeah, he kind of does. All I can see when I look at it is how much he looks like one of our former astronomy undergrads. I was doing double-takes every time I saw the article in my Google news alerts or Twitter feed!

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