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
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
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
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!