By Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker with contributions by Marjorie E. Wieseman and Sarah Bochicchio Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs used the arts to legitimize and glorify their tumultuous rule, from Henry VII's bloody rise to power, through Henry VIII's breach with the Roman Catholic Church, to the reign of the "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I. With incisive scholarship and sumptuous new photography, this book explores the extreme politics and outsize personalities
