Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-q6k6v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-12T13:22:17.641Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Lambert Barnard in Chichester Cathedral: Ecclesiastical Politics and the Tudor Royal Image

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Jonathan Woolfson  and
Deborah Lush
Jonathan Woolfson
Affiliation:
Istituto Lorenzo de'Medici, Via Faenza 43, Florence 50123, Italy. E-mail: .
Deborah Lush
Affiliation:
16 Ramblers Way, Crawley RH11 9QR, UK. E-mail: .
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Building on the pioneering work of Edward Croft Murray, this paper investigates a painting in Chichester Cathedral depicting Henry VII and Henry VIII and executed by the Netherlandish artist Lambert Barnard. With close attention to the chronology of Henry VIII's reign, it explores the painting's rich religious, political and cultural context, proposes a date for its execution, and reveals its links to Arthurian legend. The painting emerges as a sophisticated work of political theatre and propaganda with important implications for our understanding of early Tudor image-making.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 87 , September 2007 , pp. 259 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2007

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Allen, P S and Allen, H M 1929. Letters of Richard Fox, 1486–1527, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Anglo, S 1961. ‘The British History in early Tudor propaganda’, Bull John Rylands Lib, 44, 17–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Anglo, S 1964. Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Anglo, S 1992. Images of Tudor Kingship, LondonGoogle Scholar
Aston, M 1988. England's Iconoclasts, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Ayris, P 2003. ‘Reformation in action: the implementation of reform in the dioceses of England’, Reformation Renaissance Rev, 5, 30–3Google Scholar
Badham, S and Biddle, M 2000. ‘The inscriptions in the painting’, in Biddle (ed) 2000b, 255–84Google Scholar
Barker, E E 1947. ‘Sussex Anglo-Saxon charters’, Sussex Archaeol Collect, 86, 59–61Google Scholar
Bede, , The Venerable Saint 1955. A History of the English Church and People (trans and introduction by Sherley-Price, L), HarmondsworthGoogle Scholar
Bergenroth, G A, Gayangos, P de, Hume, M A S and Tyler, R 1862–1954. Calendar of State Papers, Spanish: 1485–1509, 13 vols, LondonGoogle Scholar
Biddle, M 1993. ‘Early Renaissance at Winchester’, in Winchester Cathedral: nine hundred years (ed Crook, J), 257–304, ChichesterGoogle Scholar
Biddle, M 2000a. ‘The painting of the table’, in Biddle (ed) 2000b, 425–73Google Scholar
Biddle, M (ed) 2000b. King Arthur's Round Table: an archaeological investigation, WoodbridgeGoogle Scholar
Brighton, T 1994. ‘Art in the cathedral from the Reformation to the Civil War’, in Hobbs (ed) 1994, 69–84Google Scholar
Brown, K 1991. ‘Wolsey and the ecclesiastical order: the case of the Franciscan Observants’, in Cardinal Wolsey: church, state and art (eds Gunn, S and Lindley, P), 219–38, Cambridge and New YorkGoogle Scholar
Buck, S 1997. Holbein am Hofe Heinrichs VIII, BerlinGoogle Scholar
Buck, S and Sander, J 2003. Hans Holbein the Younger, Painter at the Court of Henry VIII, LondonGoogle Scholar
Burckardus, J 1906. Liber notarum (ed Celani, E), 2 vols, Città di CastelloGoogle Scholar
Camden, W 1600. Britannia, LondonGoogle Scholar
Campbell, J (ed) 1982. The Anglo-Saxons, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Campbell, T P 2004. ‘New evidence on “Triumphs of Petrarch” tapestries in the early sixteenth century. Part II: the English court’, The Burlington Magazine, 146, 602–8Google Scholar
Carley, J P 2000. The Libraries of Henry VIII, LondonGoogle Scholar
Cassagnes-Brouquet, S 2005. L'art en famitte: les milieux artistique à Londres à la fin du Moyen Age (1350–1530), TurnhoutCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clough, C H 1981. The Duchy of Urbino in the Renaissance, LondonGoogle Scholar
Colgrave, B 1927. Life of Bishop Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus, CambridgeGoogle Scholar
Cooper, J P D 2003. Propaganda and the Tudor State: political culture in the West Country, OxfordCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Copley, G J 1977. Camden's Britannia: Surrey and Sussex, LondonGoogle Scholar
Crick, J C 1991. The historia regum Britannic of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Vol 4: Dissemination and Reception in the Later Middle Ages, CambridgeGoogle Scholar
Croft Murray, E 1957. ‘Lambert Barnard, an English early Renaissance painter’, Archaeol J, 113, 108–25CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Croft Murray, E 1962. Decorative Painting in England 1537–1837. Vol I: Early Tudor to Sir James Thornhill, LondonGoogle Scholar
Curran, J E 2002. Roman Invasions: the British History, Protestant anti-Romanism and the historical imagination in England, 1530–1660, London and Newark, NJGoogle Scholar
Ellis, H (ed) 1846. Polydore Vergil's English History, Camden Society 36, LondonGoogle Scholar
Elton, G 1972. Policy and Police: the enforcement of the Reformation in the age of Thomas Cromwell, LondonGoogle Scholar
Emden, A B 1957–1959. A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to AD 1500, 3 vols, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Fines, J 1994. ‘Cathedral and Reformation’, in Hobbs (ed) 1994, 47–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Foister, S 1981. ‘Paintings and other works of art in sixteenth-century inventories’, The Burlington Magazine, 123, 273–82Google Scholar
Foister, S 1982. ‘Holbein and his English patrons’, unpublished PhD thesis, Courtauld Institute, University of LondonGoogle Scholar
Foister, S 2005. Holbein and England, New Haven, Conn, and LondonGoogle Scholar
Garmonsway, G N 1992. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, LondonGoogle Scholar
Geoffrey of Monmouth 1976. The History of the Kings of Britain (ed Thorpe, L), HarmondsworthGoogle Scholar
Goring, J 1978. ‘The riot at Bayham Abbey, June 1525’, Sussex Archaeol Collect, 116, 1–10Google Scholar
Goring, J 1996. ‘Reformation and reaction in Sussex, 1534–59’, Sussex Archaeol Collect, 134, 141–54Google Scholar
Graham, T and Watson, A G 1998. The Recovery of the Past in Early Elizabethan England: documents by John Bale and John Jocelyn from the circle of Matthew Parker, CambridgeGoogle Scholar
Grant, R J S 1974. ‘Lawrence Nowell's transcript of BM Cotton Otho B. xi’, Anglo-Saxon Engl, 3, 111–24CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guy, J 1982. ‘Henry VIII and the praemunire manoeuvres of 1530–1’, Engl Hist Rev, 97, 481–503CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guy, J 1986. ‘Thomas Cromwell and the intellectual origins of the Henrician revolution’, in Reassessing the Henrician Age: humanism, politics and reform 1500–1550 (eds Fox, A and Guy, J), 151–78, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Gwyn, P 1990. The King's Cardinal: the rise and fall of Thomas Wolsey, LondonGoogle Scholar
Hall, E 1809. The Union of the Most Noble and Illustrious Houses of Lancaster and York, LondonGoogle Scholar
Hannah, I 1909. ‘Bishop's Palace, Chichester’, Sussex Archaeol Collect, 52, 1–23Google Scholar
Harper-Bill, C 2004. ‘Sherborn, Robert (c. 1454–1536)’, in Matthew and Harrison (eds) 2004, L, 283–4Google Scholar
Hay, D 1950. The Anglica Historia of Polydore Vergil, LondonGoogle Scholar
Hinds, A B 1912-. Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts existing in the Archives and Collections of Milan: 1385–1618, LondonGoogle Scholar
Hoak, D 1995a. ‘The iconography of the crown imperial’, in Hoak (ed) 1995b, 54–103Google Scholar
Hoak, D (ed) 1995b. Tudor Political Culture, CambridgeGoogle Scholar
Hobbs, M (ed) 1994. Chichester Cathedral: an historical survey, ChichesterGoogle Scholar
Hope, W H St John 1919. Cowdray and Easebourne Priory, LondonGoogle Scholar
Kelly, S 1994. ‘The bishopric of Selsey’, in Hobbs (ed) 1994, 1–10Google Scholar
King, J 1989. Tudor Royal Iconography, Princeton, NJGoogle Scholar
Kipling, G 1977. The Triumph of Honour: Burgundian origins of the Elizabethan Renaissance, The HagueCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kitch, M J 1978. ‘The Chichester Cathedral Chapter at the time of the Reformation’, Sussex Archaeol Collect, 116, 277–92Google Scholar
Knowles, D D 1948–1959. The Religious Orders in England, 3 vols, CambridgeGoogle Scholar
Koebner, R 1953. ‘“The imperial crown of this realm”: Henry VIII, Constantine the Great and Polydore Vergil’, Bull Inst Hist Res, 26, 29–52CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lander, S 1974. ‘The diocese of Chichester, 1508–58: episcopal reform under Robert Sherburne and its aftermath’, unpublished PhD thesis, University of CambridgeGoogle Scholar
Lander, S 1976. ‘Church courts and the Reformation in the diocese of Chichester, 1500–1558’, in Continuity and Change: personnel and administration of the Church of England, 1500–1642 (eds Heal, F and O'Day, R), 215–38, LeicesterGoogle Scholar
Leland, J 1709. Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis (ed Hall, A), OxfordGoogle Scholar
Leland, J 1774. De rebus Britannicis Collectanea (ed Hearne, T), 6 vols, LondonGoogle Scholar
Lloyd, C and Thurley, S 1990. Henry VIII: images of a Tudor king, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Matthew, H C G and Harrison, B (eds) 2004. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 61 vols, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Mayer, T F 1995. ‘On the road to 1534: the occupation of Tournai and Henry VIII's theory of sovereignty’, in Hoak (ed) 1995b, 11–30Google Scholar
Mayer, T F 2004. ‘Crofts, George (d. 1539?)’, in Matthew and Harrison (eds) 2004, XIV, 258Google Scholar
Mayr-Harting, M 1981. ‘St Wilfrid in Sussex’, in Studies in Sussex Church History (ed Kitch, M J), 1–17, LondonGoogle Scholar
McKisack, M 1971. Medieval History in the Tudor Age, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Morris, C 1947. The Journeys of Celia Fiennes, LondonGoogle Scholar
Mottram, S 2005. ‘Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two Reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan’, Renaissance Stud, 19 (5), 23–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nicholson, G 1988. ‘The Act of Appeals and the English Reformation’, in Law and Government under the Tudors (eds Cross, C, Loades, D and Scarisbrick, J J), 19–30, CambridgeGoogle Scholar
Panofsky, E 1953. Early Netherlandish Painting: its origins and character, 2 vols, Cambridge, MassGoogle Scholar
Parks, G B 1954. The English Traveller to Italy, RomeGoogle Scholar
Peckham, W D 1927. ‘Caedwalla's charter and the hundred of Manwood’, Sussex Notes Queries, 1, 233–4Google Scholar
Peckham, W D 1946. The Chartulary of the High Church of Chichester, LewesGoogle Scholar
Pierce, H 2003. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, CardiffGoogle Scholar
Raine, J R 1886. Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops, II, LondonGoogle Scholar
Riordan, M 2004. ‘West, Thomas, eight Baron West and ninth Baron de la Warr (1472–1554)’, in Matthew and Harrison (eds) 2004, LVIII, 242–4Google Scholar
Roberts, J 1993. Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII, EdinburghGoogle Scholar
Robison, W B 2004. ‘Fitzwilliam, William, earl of Southampton (c. 1490–1542)’, in Matthew and Harrison (eds) 2004, XIX, 961–5Google Scholar
Rowlands, J 1985. Holbein: the paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger. Complete Edition, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Rymer, T 1816–1830. Foedera, conventiones, litterae (ed Caley, J), 4 vols, LondonGoogle Scholar
Samman, N 1988. ‘The Henrician court during Cardinal Wolsey's ascendancy, c. 1514–29’, unpublished PhD thesis, University of BangorGoogle Scholar
Samman, N 1995. ‘The progresses of Henry VIII, 1509–1529’, in The Reign of Henry VIII: politics, policy and piety (ed MacCulloch, D), 59–74, BasingstokeCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schroeder, H 1971. Der Topos der Nine Worthies in Literatur und bildender Kunst, GöttingenGoogle Scholar
Simpson, J 2000. ‘The sacrifice of Lady Rochford: Henry Parker, Lord Morley's translation of De claris mulieribus’, in Triumphs of English: Henry Parker, Lord Money, translator to the Tudor court (eds Axton, M and Carley, J P), 153–69, LondonGoogle Scholar
Smith, A 1988. ‘The life and building activity of Richard Fox, c. 1448–1528’, unpublished PhD thesis, Warburg Institute, University of LondonGoogle Scholar
Starkey, D 1991. Henry VIII: a European court in England, LondonGoogle Scholar
Starkey, D 1998. ‘King Henry and King Arthur’, in Arthurian Literature XVI (eds Carley, J P and Riddy, F), 171–97, Woodbridge and Rochester, NYGoogle Scholar
Starkey, D 2003. Six Wives: the queens of Henry VIII, LondonGoogle Scholar
Statutes and Constitutions of the Cathedral Church of Chichester 1904, ChichesterGoogle Scholar
Steer, F W 1958. The Heraldic Ceiling at the Bishop's Palace, Chichester, Chichester Pap 10, ChichesterGoogle Scholar
Steer, F W 1960. Robert Sherburne, Bishop of Chichester: some aspects of his life reconsidered, Chichester Pap 16, ChichesterGoogle Scholar
String, T 1996. ‘Henry VIII and the art of the royal supremacy’, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Texas at AustinGoogle Scholar
Strong, R C 1969. Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 2 vols, LondonGoogle Scholar
Tatton-Brown, T 1994. ‘The buildings of the Bishop's Palace and the Close’, in Hobbs (ed) 1994, 225–46Google Scholar
Thurley, S 1993. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England, New Haven, Conn, and LondonGoogle Scholar
Tudor-Craig, P 2000. ‘The iconography of the painting’, in Biddle (ed) 2000b, 285–333Google Scholar
Ullmann, W 1979. ‘This realm of England is an empire’, J Eccles Hist, 30, 175–203CrossRefGoogle Scholar
VCH 1935. The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, III, LondonGoogle Scholar
Vergil, P 1555. Anglica Historia, BasleGoogle Scholar
Villari, P 1876. Dispacci di Antonio Giustinian, 3 vols, FlorenceGoogle Scholar
Vodden, D F 1972. ‘The correspondence of Sir William Fitzwilliam’, unpublished MPhil thesis, University of LondonGoogle Scholar
Walker, G 1991. ‘Cardinal Wolsey and the satirists: the case of Godly Queen Hester reopened’, in Cardinal Wolsey: church, state and art (eds Gunn, S and Lindley, P), 239–60, Cambridge and New YorkGoogle Scholar
Weiss, J 1999. Wace's Roman de Brut, ExeterGoogle Scholar
Weiss, R 1957. Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Woolfson, J 1998. Padua and the Tudors: English students in Italy, 1485–1603, TorontoCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, C E 1951. ‘The dispersal of monastic libraries and the beginnings of Anglo-Saxon studies’, Trans Cambridge Bibliographical Soc, 1, 208–37Google Scholar
Yorke, B 2004. ‘Caedwalla (c. 659–689)’, in Matthew, and Harrison, (eds) 2004, DC, 429Google Scholar