INSPIRATIONS for the Tudors

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In the series

Season 1 Episode 3 Masquerade	by Degas The Tudors Costumes Designer has stated that her inspiration for the costumes was Degas & Balenciaga
Sister Joan & Jane Season 1 Episode 6	"Gabrielle d'Estrees et une de ses soeurs" by an unknown artist circa 1594
Thomas Wyatt leans against a tree while waiting to meet Elizabeth Darrell in season 2	Young man leaning against a tree amongst Rose (Robert Devereaux, Second Earl of Essex) by Nicholas Hilliard
Ursula Misseldon reclines nude on the window sill while Sir Francis Bryan recites his poetry : "here is the real Danaë she would kindle your lust even higher with a touch, one mere touch of her body and your limbs melt in the fire" Season 3 Episode 1	There are many paintings of Danaë as a reclining nude - this one is c. 1612 by <a class="external" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Artemisia Gentileschi">Artemisia Gentileschi</a> Titian's Danaë, painted for a nephew of Pope Paul III, shows her being ravished by Jupiter in the form of a shower of gold. 1544 - 46, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lady Ursula Misseldon is painted by Hans Holbein at Henry's orders Season 3 Episode 3	Venus at her Mirror (The Rokeby Venus), 1650 painting by <a class="external" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Diego Velázquez">Diego Velázquez</a>. National Gallery, London.
<a class="external" href="http://pics.livejournal.com/the_grynne/pic/002khht5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> William Compton on his deathbed in Episode 1.7	<a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mantegna_Andrea_Dead_Christ.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Mantegna Andrea Dead Christ.jpg"></a> The Lamentation of the Dead Christ Andrea Mantegna c. 1480
Anne Boleyn season 1	Botticelli's Birth of Venus
Katherine Howard Season 4	Claude Manet's Olympia Titien- The Venus of Urbino
Queen Katherine of Aragon at the Blackfriars Legate Court Season 1 Episode 9	Mural of the Blackfrairs Legate Trial located in the East Corridor of the British Parliament
Anne Boleyn's coronation season 2	Elizabeth I's coronation
Season 2 Episode 1	If you look closely at Sir Thomas More's outfit in the scene you'll see it bears a striking resemblance to the outfit worn by More in Hans Holbein's famous Portrait of More (though Jeremy Northam is wearing black and has shorter hair)
Katherine Howard wearing Jewellery inspired by a portrait of Caroline Bonaparte	Error creating thumbnail: File with dimensions greater than 12.5 MP
Jane Seymour season 2 wearing a dress seemingly inspired by Edmund Blair Leighton's 'God Speed'
Queen Katherine of Aragon, season 1	Portrait of Katherine, around 40
Katherine's choker with the same brooch	Young Elizabeth - brooch
Princess Elizabeth Tudor, season 4	Queen Isabella Mother of Queen Katherine of Aragon
King Henry VIII's painting, season 4	True painting of King Henry VIII
Queen Catherine of Aragon dying- season 2	Death of Queen Isabella, Catherine of Aragon's mother

And Katherine Howard- Season 3	Degas- Scène de coulisses ( detail)
Anne Boleyn- Season 1	Degas- La Toilette
Brigitte Rousselot- Season 4	Queen Isabella of Spain, Queen Catherine of Aragon's mother
Henry VIII crowning Anne Boleyn- Season 2	Napoleon's coronation- David

Promo pics

	Princess Diana Anne Boleyn in the Tower- Edouard Cibot
Jane Seymour, season 4 promotional poster	Primavera- Sandro Botticelli c. 1482