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  1. A Royally Inspired Q&A with Tilda Swinton

    Oct 23, 2018 - When we made Orlando in 1990, a film I love dearly, Sally Potter and I studied formal portraiture assiduously. I’m not sure that a monarch, or an heir to a throne, considers themselves much as an individual at all: That is pretty much the job description, to be a representative first and foremost, to inherit a title from a line of succession A monarch, by definition, has no life more important than the path of representing her/his people; it is a selfless and, to a certain extent, sacrificial vocation.

  2. Lost & Found: The Iconic Royal Painting That Rose Again

    Oct 19, 2018 - After a series of political machinations, Mary I—a Catholic, and King Henry VIII’s eldest daughter—took the crown, and Lady Jane Grey was executed months later. A History of a Painting To keep Britain’s monarchs Protestant, Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554) was named queen at the age of 16. a team of colleagues, working together to bring the painting depicting death back to life.

  3. Making Monarchy: The Changing Face of Power

    Oct 18, 2018 - Queen Elizabeth I Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Queen Elizabeth I (“The Ditchley Portrait”), c. 1592 The only surviving child of King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I inherited the throne in 1558. For this 2009 commission to create a double portrait of Prince William and Prince Harry, Nicky Philipps took a new artistic approach to the time-honored tradition. Though attired in their formal Household Cavalry uniforms, the brothers appear in relaxed poses in a seemingly unguarded moment—an unusual choice for a royal portrait.

  4. Look Closely, If You Dare! Haunting Works from the MFAH Collections

    Oct 15, 2018 - , and even a few witches. But with crawling creatures such as a snake, a crawfish, and spiders surrounding the figure of a man, it would not be surprising if this jug did discourage someone from indulging in a cocktail! Salvator Rosa, The Witches’ Sabbath, c. 1640–49 Salvator Rosa painted a number of unflinching depictions of the occult.

  5. Royal Reflections: Rulers in Art from the MFAH Collections

    Oct 12, 2018 - every time I did so, I still felt like an alienated foreigner.” When a new king ascended, his coronation rites included casting of a pair of heads to honor his predecessor. Maya, Seated Ruler from Stela 11, 731 AD Adorned with jewelry and a massive feathered headdress, this figure once gazed down on a scene of sacrifice.

  6. Closer Look: William Shakespeare’s Second Folio

    Oct 10, 2018 - The Second Folio is really the story of how a book made a 17th-century London playwright one of the most dominant figures in Western culture. At that time, whoever was the first to print a play could go to the stationer’s office (what we would think of as a copyright office today) to claim the rights. Houston just happens to have a delightful fall lined up for Anglophiles all around the city!

  7. A Taste of the Scottish North Highlands in Houston

    Oct 5, 2018 - The Queen Mother Inspires a Unique Initiative Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon—wife of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, and remembered as the Queen Mother—was a loving supporter of a region of the United Kingdom known as Marketers have worked with family businesses, all located within a 150-mile radius of the Castle of Mey, to create a product line called the Mey Selections. Authentic and exclusive are qualities that come to mind when describing the Mey Selections, a range of artisanal foods created by farmers in northwest Scotland through a farming and trade initiative of Prince Charles and now available

  8. A New Type of Royal Portrait: Queen Victoria & Photography

    Oct 3, 2018 - One monarch, especially, set a new precedent for how royals were depicted: Queen Victoria (1819–1901). Photographic images of royals were widely reproduced, transforming the public perception of the royal family: a standard that continues to the present-day royals.  

  9. Mysterious Symbols: Rienzi’s “Masonic Punch Bowl”

    Sep 27, 2018 - Punch became a popular drink in England, and as Henry Fielding wrote in The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, “If we must drink, let us have a bowl of punch—a liquor I rather prefer, as it is nowhere spoken against in Scripture —“To a Fly, Taken out of a Punch Bowl” by Peter Pindar, 1792 With mysterious symbols and a history that spans centuries and continents, this Masonic Punch Bowl tells many stories. A Craze for Punch “Punch” comes from a Hindi word for the number five, reflecting the number of major ingredients: alcohol, sugar, citrus, spices, and water.

  10. Hispanic Heritage Month Spotlight: A Rare Sampler from the Bayou Bend Collection

    Sep 19, 2018 - A few other letters are completely missing, including W, which was not yet part of the Spanish alphabet, and U, which was represented by the letter V. A Matter of Letters Interestingly, Fernandez seems to have initially forgotten to include the letter E in the alphabet letters, as it is stitched as the last line of letters! A daughter, Maria Del Carmen Fernandez, was born in 1819 in Taos, New Mexico. As a student, the young girl worked this simple, long band sampler with the help of her teacher, Lady Maria Antonia de Aceta.