A pair of lidded bowls in the J. Paul Getty Museum have had quite an exciting existence.
Baroque England
Whatever his political misdeeds as king, King Charles I was a great collector of art.
Charles I as art collector
A portrait of the cultivated, but deeply flawed, politically inept, and unlucky King Charles I, who ended his days beheaded on a scaffold.
Anthony van Dyck, Equestrian Portrait of Charles ...
Each element of Charles II's dress conveys his status and wealth, as well as a masculine ideal.
John Michael Wright, The Coronation Portrait of ...
Though he was eventually beheaded, this portrait encapsulates the king's notion of independent authority, and his belief in the divine right of kings.
Anthony van Dyck, Charles I with M. ...
Europe's earliest views of America
Wooldridge, Indians of Virginia
Built to glorify the reign of James I, Inigo Jones’s hall later provided the backdrop for Charles I’s execution.
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