{"id":340,"date":"2008-04-29T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2008-04-29T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T17:32:37","slug":"two-portraits-for-the-price-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/two-portraits-for-the-price-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Two portraits for the price of one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A rare portrait, believed to be of Shakespeare&#8217;s only known patron, has been discovered using X-ray technology.<\/p>\n<p>Art historians from Bristol University have found what they believe is a picture of Henry Wriothesley which was painted over in the 16th Century.<\/p>\n<p>To the naked eye, it is a portrait of his wife Elizabeth Vernon, dressed in black and wearing ruby ear-rings.<\/p>\n<p>The hidden picture was uncovered when the work was X-rayed in preparation for an exhibition in Somerset.<\/p>\n<p>Radiography revealed that underneath the oil portrait of Elizabeth I&#8217;s maid of honour was a ghostly male figure &#8211; an older work which had been painted over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/7372629.stm\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article with picture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=562746&#038;in_page_id=1770\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an article from the Daily Mail with a larger photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: A rare portrait, believed to be of Shakespeare&#8217;s only known patron, has been discovered using X-ray technology. Art historians from Bristol University have found what they believe is a picture of Henry Wriothesley which was painted over in the 16th Century. To the naked eye, it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/two-portraits-for-the-price-of-one\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}