Six Lives. The National Portrait Gallery tell the stories of Henry VIII's six Queens

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024

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  • @slipton6493
    @slipton6493 22 дні тому

    What a rich show filled with one wonderful drawing and painting after another as well as the history behind the figures. Some of the paintings remind me of Max Beckmann in their essence. Loved the Holbein drawings and paintings. Thank you Art Gallery Explorer!

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  18 днів тому

      Thank you for watching. Holbein is magnificent, isn't he?

  • @mauricehalfhide3982
    @mauricehalfhide3982 19 днів тому

    I enjoyed this a great deal. Thanks so much, from thousands of miles away. It just so happens I started the Tudor this week in Fashion History class. I didn't even know about the exhibit before seeing this video.

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  18 днів тому +1

      Thank you for watching. Tudor fashion is magnificent - as hopefully you can see from these works!

  • @PatriciaEnright
    @PatriciaEnright 2 місяці тому

    Yes, a great place to spend a day (like so many of London's fantastic galleries and museums). Look forward to pre Tudor portraits being back on display again in the future.

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  2 місяці тому

      Hopefully - The King's Gallery has a great showing of Holbein's drawings last year as well.

  • @PatriciaEnright
    @PatriciaEnright 2 місяці тому

    Thanks for your video, you covered everything so well. Have seen the exhibition and agree how it brought these 6 Queens to life and of course Henry himself. Agree the after life section was a bit disappointing. I love Tudor History....was first inspired by my late Dad taking me to the costume exhibition of The BBC Series on Henry VIII and his Six Wives in 1972.

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  2 місяці тому +1

      I can totally understand how that made you love the period. Thank you for watching - on a broader note, the NPG has been in fine form since it reopened - always a thrill to go there.

  • @jonnybleakley2238
    @jonnybleakley2238 2 місяці тому +1

    Like many I suspect I was aware of "The dinner party", it featuring in art compendiums, as an undoubtedly distinctive piece; but had no idea of its origin or meaning before your vlog so thank you.

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  2 місяці тому

      Thank you for watching - I really want to get to Brooklyn and see the work!

  • @elizaaa77
    @elizaaa77 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for 26 minutes of wonderful content, always enjoying your comprehensive review. Waiting for more!

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks so much for watching. It means a huge amount to get comments like this. More certainly on the way as we enter the Autumn season!

  • @WendySmith-l8i
    @WendySmith-l8i 4 місяці тому

    I had a fall recently.... at a gallery! So I probably won't get to see this exhibition. Your detailed commentary was invaluable and the paintings looked sumptuous. Hans Holbein's paintings are wonderful...I saw some recently at the NG too. Thank you...I don't know how you fit all this around your working life! ..W

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  4 місяці тому

      I am sorry to hear you had a fall - I hope you are on the road to recovery? Thank you for watching and your kind comments - an easy show to narrate because it was so good!

  • @loralouise3865
    @loralouise3865 3 місяці тому

    Hey there! I’m a brand new subscriber and I love the content and look forward to seeing your future videos because I’m a big fan of both art and history. Unfortunately I’m in the states and it’s going to be a while before I can get back to the UK, I have been there a while ago I love the UK, especially since it’s so rich in history and most of my ancestors were from the UK! I’m very proud of my heritage. I’m excited to see these exhibits in the future and I appreciate your efforts to share them with us! Thanks so much!

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  3 місяці тому +1

      Thank you so much for watching and subscribing. It means a huge amount, especially all the way from the States. You guys have so many great art museums (some of which I've visited but others - like the Chicago Institute of Art - which I have not and am keen to in the future) too. I will keep trying to cover any Old Master shows that come up here!

    • @loralouise3865
      @loralouise3865 3 місяці тому

      @@artgalleryexplorer I have a dear cousin that works at the Chicago Museum of Art and it’s a truly wonderful place to visit! We both earned our Master’s degrees in Library and Information Science and specialised in art history (my cousin), and I specialised in Medical and Health Sciences . We both graduated from the same University in Michigan, Wayne State University. I was very lucky that when I was earning my degree, there was tuition reimbursement at the hospital I worked at if you earned all A’s in every one of your classes. I don’t know how they do grades/ marks or measure how good someone does in the Universities in the UK, but my grades were top tier. I don’t think very many, if any employers do this kind of thing anymore in the US, but when we went to University to earn our Master’s degrees (graduate), the benefits you could get from employers were a lot better than what they are today. People don’t earn as much in a lot of jobs and they get less of a benefit package. Also, everything costs a lot more, so much more (especially in the last four years or so)! Sorry for the long reply!

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  3 місяці тому

      @@loralouise3865 That must be a very special place for your cousin to work. Sadly, the expense of University has grown in the UK too over the last two and a half decades. While some employers (such as the military) do sponsor places, this is (like you say is happening in the US) increasingly rare in many fields. I feel sorry for the current generation.

  • @zemabar
    @zemabar 2 місяці тому

    I give your review an 8 out of 10.😄

  • @sylviabarbara9956
    @sylviabarbara9956 4 місяці тому

    Thanks so much for this! You're a star, I subbed immediately.

  • @kafountineful
    @kafountineful 4 місяці тому

    Really excellent - many thanks

  • @graphiquejack
    @graphiquejack 4 місяці тому

    Thanks for showing most of the paintings and artifacts. For those of us who can’t get to the gallery, it’s great to see everything they curated. My issue with the premise of lumping these six women together is that they are frequently given equal footing, but really only three of the wives were very interesting or important historically, and the star is of course Anne Boleyn. Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and Kathryn Howard were mere blips in history and mainly only notable for marrying the same egocentric man. Their stories pale in comparison to Katherine of Aragon’s, Catherine Parr’s and especially Anne Boleyn’s, so the important wives often get somewhat downgraded and the less important wives are given more prominence than they really deserve. In Anne Boleyn’s case, for an exhibition like this, it’s true that there aren’t a lot of artifacts they could have included, but they definitely could have added more than this, unless they weren’t able to secure certain pieces for the exhibition. A shame but any historical exhibition is going to be affected by what has survived.

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  4 місяці тому

      Thank you so much for watching and for your comment. Each Queen was given equal space (e.g. a small gallery) and I agree that does not reflect their relative importance. I had my mind changed by the presentation of Catherine Parr who I hadn't really clocked was a hugely impressive political operator. I agree that Anne Boleyn's influence is impressive in the sense that she, mainly through her daughter, was crucial in cementing the eventual embrace of Protestantism. I sensed that there had been attempts to secure certain pieces which were unable to be loaned. Still, a rich show!

  • @jameswelsh7789
    @jameswelsh7789 3 місяці тому +1

    As an American, with this horrific English history (which is my distant heritage) on one hand and the seriously ‘Wierd’ Horrific, anachronism presented in the person of Donald Trump on the other, I’m deeply grateful for all the ancestors who liberated US from these monsters. !!! 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟
    I do wish we would focus attention on the builders, back then, of our cultural and political progress as well as the monsters that I hope we are leaving in the past.🥲

    • @artgalleryexplorer
      @artgalleryexplorer  3 місяці тому +1

      Interesting comment and I would honestly say that Hans Holbein was one of the builders, bringing the Renaissance to England. Yes, the focus is on the historical figures but as an Art Lover, I went round this show with my gratitude for Hans renewed. There was a show focused totally on him at The Queens Gallery (now Kings Gallery) which gave him the spotlight he deserved. Thank you, as always, for watching. I am already feeling palpitations for the upcoming US election and I don't even live there!

    • @jameswelsh7789
      @jameswelsh7789 3 місяці тому

      @@artgalleryexplorer I’m aware of Holbein’s sponsorship by T. Cromwell in the Tudor court, and I believe, his association with the expatriate Dutch who did business with the aristocracy. In this Holbein is within those early impulses that contributed to progress.
      How do you see him in particular as a builder?

    • @jameswelsh7789
      @jameswelsh7789 3 місяці тому

      @@artgalleryexplorer re: the election, I wish the English and Canadians could vote in US elections. May as well, you English resemble Americans more and more.