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Tudorism: Historical Imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century

Tatiana C. String and Marcus Bull

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780197264942

Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2013

DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264942.001.0001

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The Tudors Viewed by French Romantic Artists

The Tudors Viewed by French Romantic Artists

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(p.182) (p.183) 9 The Tudors Viewed by French Romantic Artists
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Tudorism
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STEPHEN BANN

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British Academy
DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197264942.003.0010

This chapter singles out two features of the cult of British historical themes in French Romantic painting, and focuses on the most prominent of the artists who cultivated such scenes involving Tudors and Stuarts: Paul Delaroche. It argues that the pronounced nineteenth-century French interest in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English history was a form of displacement, so that Delaroche's painting of the execution of Lady Jane Grey (1834), for example, opened up for the French viewer a space in which to negotiate memories of the Terror within the relative comfort of a more distant and foreign historical moment.

Keywords:   British historical themes, French Romantic painting, Paul Delaroche, English history, Lady Jane Grey, the Terror, Tudor, Stuarts

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