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fromSmithsonian Magazine
3 days ago
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Tudor Courtiers Exchanged Portrait Miniatures as Love Tokens. Centuries Later, New Research Is Unlocking the Secrets of These Intimate Artworks

Nicholas Hilliard, England's first internationally famous native-born artist, created exquisitely detailed miniature watercolor portraits on vellum that served as portable intimate keepsakes and diplomatic gifts in Elizabethan England.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

Newly discovered portrait of Shakespeare's patron suggests he is the fair youth' of the sonnets

Newly discovered Nicholas Hilliard portrait may be earliest likeness of Henry Wriothesley and bears a defaced red heart on the reverse suggesting scorned love.
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