Holbein the Younger and Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hans Holbein the Younger and Hiroshi Sugimoto at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Today, six wives are too many even for Muslims, excluding those who have economic resources and titles of rank and nobility.

Between the end of the fifteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century, King Henry VIII, in order to pass on to Anne Boleyn, promulgated the Act of Supremacy, through which the Anglican Church separated from Rome, in a schism that was no longer mended. From Catherine of Aragon, passing through Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr in stories of life, culture, lineages, dynasties, religions, will, social phenomena and constrictions.

From this point, the exhibition “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIIIs Queens” from 20 June to 8 September 2024, curated by Charlotte Bolland, paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and photos by contemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto are connected under the name of portraiture.

The show, first major exhibition, is a study in chronological order of the lives and afterlives of the six women who married Henry VIII, from paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98, Augsburg – 1543, London) German painter, draftsman and designer to photos by Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948, Tokyo) Japanese photographer, linked to costume from SIX the Musical and books, jewels, textiles, extraordinary tapestry.

 

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