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Yet, iconic as they are, when it comes to Tudor art, portraits – and rulers – are far from the whole story. In the sixteenth century, images and objects took on powerful new roles, as more people than ever before used them to shape their worlds. Monarchs, archbishops and courtiers continued to commission artworks in a variety of media, to convey messages and create a record of themselves as office-holders and individuals. But in this period, the 'middling sort', professional men and women, were also gaining status, wealth and influence. They wanted to promote themselves too, and used art and a dazzling array of objects to do so. In this unique and beautiful book, Christina Faraday uses art – paintings, sculpture, prints, tapestries, embroideries, clothes, jewels and household objects – to investigate every facet of the period. Beside dissecting familiar portraits of Tudor kings, queens and nobles, Faraday casts a forensic eye across a dynamic array of artefacts, giving the reader a vivid and detailed feel for the political, social, economic and cultural texture of sixteenth-century England.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781804547397","publication_date":"20260505","publisher":"Bloomsbury USA","slug":"the-story-of-tudor-art","subtitle":"A History of Tudor England Through Its Art and Objects","title":"The Story of Tudor Art"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"HIS015030","confidence_band":"high","label":"Tudor & Elizabethan Britain","score":0.829,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"ART015070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Medieval Art History","score":0.7937,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"ART015030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"European Art","score":0.7823,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"HIS015030","confidence_band":"high","label":"Tudor & Elizabethan Britain","score":0.829,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"ART015070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Medieval Art History","score":0.7937,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"ART015030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"European Art","score":0.7823,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"ART015000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Art History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"ART015030","confidence_band":"high","label":"European Art","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS015030","confidence_band":"high","label":"Tudor & Elizabethan Britain","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Tudor & Elizabethan Britain","score":0.829,"slug":"tudor-elizabethan-britain"},{"label":"Medieval Art History","score":0.7937,"slug":"medieval-art-history"},{"label":"European Art","score":0.7823,"slug":"european-art"}],"reader_fit":["For readers interested in Tudor England explored through art and objects.","For readers curious about the political and social life of sixteenth-century England."],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Victor Stater"],"book_id":"9780415207447","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780415207447.jpg?v=fb250d6bdca7ee27","score":0.7303,"title":"A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780415207447"},{"authors":["Natalie Grueninger"],"book_id":"9780750970150","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780750970150.jpg?v=c1cee36d32b2ba17","score":0.7265,"title":"Discovering Tudor London","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780750970150"},{"authors":["Graham Turner"],"book_id":"9781472847287","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781472847287.jpg?v=49dcea482fb3830d","score":0.7224,"title":"The Wars of the Roses","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781472847287"},{"authors":["Alison Weir"],"book_id":"9780345407863","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780345407863.jpg?v=d5549bb1860bfc30","score":0.72,"title":"The Children of Henry VIII","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780345407863"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:history"],"label":"History","score":0.4536,"slug":"history"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:political"],"label":"Political","score":0.0493,"slug":"political"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Tudor art and artefacts, Sixteenth-century English society, Art as self-presentation.","Themes: History, Political.","Reading lane: Tudor & Elizabethan Britain and Medieval Art History."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.94,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["For readers interested in Tudor England explored through art and objects.","For readers curious about the political and social life of sixteenth-century England."],"themes":["Tudor art and artefacts","Sixteenth-century English society","Art as self-presentation"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":3,"goodreads_ratings_count":14,"goodreads_reviews_count":9,"quality_score":0.8525}}