The Armada Tapestries were a series of ten tapestries that commemorated the defeat of the Spanish Armada. They were commissioned in 1591 by the Lord High...
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Spanish Armada with the Armada Tapestries (1591); these were made in Delft, by a team who also made many tapestries of Dutch naval victories. The Armada set...
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of Gravelines. Spain portal England portal Armada Memorial Armada Tapestries Invisible armada The Armada Service The English Mercurie Although the English...
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Above the portraits, at window level, are copies of six of the ten Armada tapestries, which hung in the chamber of the House of Lords until their destruction...
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Hunter, in Tapestries; Their Origin, History And Renaissance, 1912, calls it The Star of Bethlehem."The Morris Tapestry Works At Merton". Tapestries; Their...
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painting also serves as a visual record of the appearance of the Armada tapestries, which were destroyed in the 1834 Burning of Parliament. Lord Chatham...
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Graal tapestries are a set of six tapestries depicting scenes from the legend of King Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail. The tapestries were commissioned...
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The Pastrana Tapestries (Portuguese: Tapeçarias de Pastrana) are four large tapestries commissioned by king Afonso V of Portugal to celebrate the successful...
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during which he had had some success. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. He led and invested in a number of expeditions, but many were turned...
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October, and at 4:00 pm two gentlemen tourists visiting to see the Armada tapestries that hung there were unable to view them properly because of the thick...
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the new purpose-built room, which was hung with tapestry depicting the defeat of the Spanish Armada. This apparently tactless gesture was noted by Luisa...
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William Wynter (section Spanish Armada)
place despite the naval repulse delivered to the armada. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. Wynter held command in numerous expeditions Served...
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the battle with the Spanish Armada, in command of the Elizabeth Jonas. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. In 1591 the Privy Council asked...
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Magazine, November 1834 pp. 477-83. Retrieved 7 June 2014. John Pine,The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords... (1739). Retrieved 18 January 2016. James...
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record of the Armada. It is probable that Ryther's charts, or Adams's original drawings, were the basis for tapestries of the Spanish Armada, executed by...
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The Franses Tapestry Archive and Library in London is devoted to the study of European tapestries and figurative textiles. It is the world’s largest academic...
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Lord Effingham on 26 July 1588. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. Beeston had already fought in France and in Scotland. Some of his...
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to London. Adams also drew and engraved representations of the Spanish Armada's activities on the British coasts, which were published by Augustine Ryther...
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The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald (category Tapestries)
the French in 1695 and are now known only from descriptions and from a tapestry copy in the Historical Museum of Bern. The work is thought to have preoccupied...
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the defeat of the Armada. He also commissioned a Flemish artist, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, to make a series of tapestries on the Armada, based on Augustine...
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Cromwell was possibly inspired by discussions of the placement of the Armada Tapestries, previously owned by King Charles I. As of 2000[update], no signed...
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history. In 1960 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Born in Washington, D.C., Mattingly attended elementary school in Washington...
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Hugo of Moncada i Gralla (category Spanish Armada)
from the British Library The story of the Armada battles with pictures from the House of Lords tapestries BBC-ZDF etc. TV coproduction Natural History...
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of Francis Drake and other explorers and privateers. During the Spanish Armada, Leicester was in overall command of the English land forces. In this function...
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Spanish Armada was on its way. Protestant mobs attacked English Catholics who fought back in self-defense. With England engulfed in civil war, the Armada landed...
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Invasion (2000), for the PlayStation Star Trek Armada (2000), for Microsoft Windows 98 Star Trek: Armada II (2001) Star Trek: Bridge Commander (2002) Star...
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Martin Frobisher (section Spanish Armada)
French ships. He was later knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588. Martin Frobisher was probably born in 1535 or 1536, the son of...
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Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (section Tapestry designs)
for tapestry designs, one of which, from Lord Howard of Effingham, was for a series of ten tapestries depicting the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 1588...
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to Join S&P 500; Pinnacle Financial Partners to Join S&P MidCap 400 and Armada Hoffler Properties to Join S&P SmallCap 600" (PDF). www.spice-indices.com...
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of armors and weapons, pharmaceutical, silverware, watches, paintings, tapestries and the most comprehensive collection of Stradivarius in the world The...
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