Gloriana: Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I - Hardcover

Strong, Roy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500250987 ISBN 13: 9780500250983

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

A detailed analysis of all of the major portraits of Queen Elizabeth I demonstrates how the restoration of stability to her socially and religiously divided country depended on the image of the Queen as a deified, all-powerful monarch

About this title

Review:

"A work of immense beauty and precision in which the text completely lives up to the many and admirable reproductions... a real triumph of scholarship." -- "Punch"

About the Author:

Sir Roy Strong was educated at the University of London, and the Warburg Institute. He joined the staff of the National Portrait Gallery in 1959 and became its Director from 1967 to 1973. He was Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987 when he resigned to become a full-time writer, broadcaster and consultant. His books include The Story of Britain and The Spirit of Britain, and most recently Feast (Jonathan Cape, 2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0500250987
• ISBN 13: 9780500250983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 180