The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry

Roy Strong

Pimlico, 1999 - Art - 227 pages

No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.

About the author

Sir Roy Strong is well-known as an historian and garden writer, lecturer, critic, columnist and regular contributor to both radio and television. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967-73 and of the Vandamp;A from 1974-87. In 1980 he was awarded the prestigious Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg in recognition of his contribution to the arts in the UK. He has published a number of highly acclaimed books and his recent publications include THE STORY OF BRITAIN, THE SPIRIT OF BRITAIN, A COUNTRY LIFE, FEAST, CORONATION, THE LASKETT and his own diaries. He lives in Herefordshire.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry; Volume 381 of Pimlico (Series)
• Author: Roy Strong
• Edition: 2, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Pimlico, 1999
• ISBN: 0712664815, 9780712664813
• Length: 227 pages
• Subjects: Art / European; Art / History / General; Art / History / Renaissance; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Royalty; History / Europe / Great Britain / General