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“... displayed their pictures on walls along the Strand while the more ambitious claimed shop windows.Christina Faraday’s book seeks to understand the ways in which the Tudors thought and spoke about art and, in particular, the excitement and dangers posed by artworks that seemed almost ‘alive’. Such beguiling works could both instruct and ...”

“... the gaps.Two new books offer a welcome contribution to our understanding of this fractured legacy. Christina Faraday’s lively history of the Tudor visual world examines not just the ‘fine arts’ of painting and sculpture, but the wider decorative arts, bringing in works as diverse as manuscripts, samplers, armour and candle-snuffers to tell the story ...”

“... Around​ the year 1500, in Eisenach, Thuringia, a woman gave birth to a mouse. According to rumour, this ‘beautiful and virtuous’ woman had, during her pregnancy, encountered a dormouse on which a neighbour had tied a little bell to scare away other dormice. This unexpected vision imprinted itself on the foetus in her womb. In the days after the birth, news spread through the community, reaching a young Martin Luther, then studying in the town ...”