Henry VIII
09
September 2025

Tudor Art: A New Story

The Arts Society Worcester - come and join us.
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - 20:00
Bishop Perowne C of E College
Merriman’s Hill Road Worcester WR3 8LE
Online Event

The Tudors used a rich variety of images and objects to promote their rule. This lecture puts these artworks into context.

From Henry VII onwards, the Tudor dynasty made unprecedented use of images and objects to promote their rule. We’ll uncover the rich variety of painting, architecture, tapestry and other decorative objects that surrounded English viewers in the 16th century, putting these artworks into their religious, political, social and artistic contexts.

Visitors are welcome to all our lectures, either in person or online via Zoom.

Dr Christina Faraday
Dr Christina Faraday Dr Christina Faraday, FRHistS, is a historian of art and ideas, specialising in Tudor and Stuart Britain and the wider 16th and 17th-century world. She is a Research Fellow in History of Art at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, a Trustee of the Walpole Society for British art history, and a BBC New Generation Thinker, appearing regularly on BBC Radio 3 and in other popular media. She is an experienced lecturer, and teaches for the History of Art Department at the University of Cambridge, The Wallace Collection, the National Gallery, London, and for the Institute for Continuing Education, Cambridge, where she is Co-Director of the MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture. Her first book, Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England, was published in 2023 by the Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press. Her next book, The Story of Tudor Art, will be published in 2025.