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Jon Millington's avatar

I wonder if the one of the attractions of the Tudor period to modern storytellers is the advances in portraiture of the time. Painting suddenly becomes dramatically realistic from 1500 onwards, and the subjects suddenly look like people rather than illustrations.

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Tobias Sturt's avatar

I find it hard to believe that anyone will ever rehabilitate John 'Lackland', the spoiled little shit - surely Disney's Peter Ustinov voiced cowardly lion is a portrayal that no reputation could overcome

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