An excellent podcast. Last year for my birthday, my wife bought me Angus Haldane's "Portraits of the English Civil Wars" from your online shop. I'm looking forward to seeing them properly on Saturday when I attend the Association's AGM!
Thank you for sharing this filmed talk & tour, as part of the BBC's documentary series 'Art That Made Us' which those of us who don't have access to BBC iPlayer and all this bonus material to the TV series. I was able to see the first 2 episodes (here in The Netherlands). I'll have to re-watch this: once the BBC airs the 4th episode 'To Kill a King', in 2 weeks. Coming Thursday evening the 3rd "Elizabethan" episode will be shown. Thank you for sharing all you did. What really surprised me was, to learn, that "state-portraits" of Oliver Cromwell were "exchanged", at the time, with other countries/powers. Especially where most "European" countries were still ruled by Absolute Monarchs. Wouldn't the English Civil War ( - England having ceased, for a time, to be a Monarchy) & Oliver Cromwell have stirred fear amongst those in power around Europe? Like the 1789 French Revolution created fear amongst the reigning royal houses across the Continent. And funny to see how "copyright" wasn't a thing in Art back in the day. And plagiarism took place in paintings and engravings in such a big way. "Cut & Paste" was truly used before Photoshop became a thing😉. 23:00 Had forgotten that Dominic West portrayed Oliver Cromwell in that 2008 Channel 4 TV series. Liked the way he portrayed Commander Cromwell. But really loved all the sumptuous 17th Century costuming in it. Eventhough the political Civil War story would probably NOT pass the "Historical accurate" test😁.
Glad you enjoyed it Janet - and yes, do look out for the programme when broadcast if you can see it. Yes, there doesn't seem to have been quite the same rush to surpress the English Revolution in the same way as there was with the French one a century later, although that may be as there were less noises about exporting revolutionary ideals in the 1640s, and most European powers were exhausted by the Thirty Years' War. Copyright certainly didn't exist in the 1600s... thankfully for the artists of the period! Yes, you spotted our photo of Dominic West - just out of shot is one of Richard Harris, bringing up to date some of the many depictions of Cromwell!
An excellent podcast. Last year for my birthday, my wife bought me Angus Haldane's "Portraits of the English Civil Wars" from your online shop. I'm looking forward to seeing them properly on Saturday when I attend the Association's AGM!
Thank you for sharing this filmed talk & tour, as part of the BBC's documentary series 'Art That Made Us' which those of us who don't have access to BBC iPlayer and all this bonus material to the TV series. I was able to see the first 2 episodes (here in The Netherlands). I'll have to re-watch this: once the BBC airs the 4th episode 'To Kill a King', in 2 weeks. Coming Thursday evening the 3rd "Elizabethan" episode will be shown.
Thank you for sharing all you did.
What really surprised me was, to learn, that "state-portraits" of Oliver Cromwell were "exchanged", at the time, with other countries/powers. Especially where most "European" countries were still ruled by Absolute Monarchs. Wouldn't the English Civil War ( - England having ceased, for a time, to be a Monarchy) & Oliver Cromwell have stirred fear amongst those in power around Europe? Like the 1789 French Revolution created fear amongst the reigning royal houses across the Continent.
And funny to see how "copyright" wasn't a thing in Art back in the day. And plagiarism took place in paintings and engravings in such a big way. "Cut & Paste" was truly used before Photoshop became a thing😉.
23:00 Had forgotten that Dominic West portrayed Oliver Cromwell in that 2008 Channel 4 TV series. Liked the way he portrayed Commander Cromwell. But really loved all the sumptuous 17th Century costuming in it. Eventhough the political Civil War story would probably NOT pass the "Historical accurate" test😁.
Glad you enjoyed it Janet - and yes, do look out for the programme when broadcast if you can see it. Yes, there doesn't seem to have been quite the same rush to surpress the English Revolution in the same way as there was with the French one a century later, although that may be as there were less noises about exporting revolutionary ideals in the 1640s, and most European powers were exhausted by the Thirty Years' War.
Copyright certainly didn't exist in the 1600s... thankfully for the artists of the period!
Yes, you spotted our photo of Dominic West - just out of shot is one of Richard Harris, bringing up to date some of the many depictions of Cromwell!