Queen Elizabeth I by Unknown artist, circa 1587. © National Portrait Gallery, London

LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery presents Making History: Printed Portraiture in Tudor and Early Stuart Britain, on view through December 9, 2007. Long before the age of photography, printed portraits served a growing public appetite to gaze upon the features of men and women whose exploits and achievements had excited public interest. From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the great and the good (such as naval heroes, military commanders and the nobility) and the not so good (such as convicted traitors) were portrayed by engravers.
Exploring the visual history of the fame-making process in Tudor and Jacobean England, this display features some of the Gallery's earliest original portrait prints. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20949