Join us for a journey through the history of this remarkable, and truly immense, stately home. From Thomas Wentworth, the marquess of Rockingham, its builder, through its time as the Fitzwilliam family home, then a teacher training college, and finally its sale in 2017. Now safely in the hands of the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust, there are even bigger plans in place for its future. Why not follow up on the talk with a visit the following week.
We think of Holbein as the greatest portraitist of the northern Renaissance. This talk explorers another aspect of his multifaceted genius: his creation of the supreme propaganda “posters” of the Tudor dynasty. Here Holbein, the artist, worked with Richard Morison, the Latin wordsmith, to create mixed-media messages in which Morison’s words were, to contemporaries at least, as important as Holbein’s resplendent images.
Joint membership of The Friends for two people at the same address for one year. You will be invited to renew from 1st January the following year (unless you join after 1 October, in which case you will be invited to renew the year after next).