Nonsuch Palace. Hoefnagel, Joris c. 1560, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Nonsuch Palace by Flemish School -- 15th-16th century, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Posted on 09/07/2011 5:44:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
That which no equal has in Art or Fame, Britons deservedly do Nonesuch name', translates the comment of a German visitor to Nonsuch in 1568. Nonsuch Palace in Surrey was the greatest piece of dynastic propaganda erected by the English crown before the 19th century. Built by Henry VIII to rival the palaces of the French King, Francis I, Nonsuch no longer survives as it was demolished by a mistress of King Charles II in 1682-90. However, thanks to research carried out over decades by an Oxford professor, a huge model has been unveiled that provides an accurate recreation of the palace that once symbolised the power and the grandeur of the Tudor dynasty...
Work started on Nonsuch Palace in 1538, on the 30th anniversary of Henry VIII's reign and six months after his long awaited male heir, later to be Edward VI, was born to Jane Seymour. Professor Martin Biddle said: 'From the start it was Henry's evident intention to celebrate the birth of long awaited male heir by building a house without equal.' ...
Around 1,300 fragments of carved slate were found during the excavation of 1959 with ten different types of moulded border, and a great variety of royal badges, roses, fruits and flowers, scrolls, trophies of arms, and figures. Fragments of three Roman imperial busts in terracotta were also discovered, part of a series of 32 Roman emperors...
Diarist Samuel Pepys visited Nonsuch on September 21, 1665, and wrote in his diary that 'all the house on the outside [is] filled with figures of story, and good paintings of Rubens or Holben's doing. And one great thing is that most of the house is covered, I mean the posts and quarters in the walls, covered with lead and gilded.'
(Excerpt) Read more at pasthorizonspr.com ...
Nonsuch Palace. Hoefnagel, Joris c. 1560, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Nonsuch Palace by Flemish School -- 15th-16th century, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Painting of Henry VIII’s ‘Lost’ Palace For Sale
Discovery News | Thursday, November 4, 2010 | unattributed
Posted on 11/09/2010 6:45:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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It must have just ~rocked~ to be King.
Too bad they don’t try to reconstruct it for real.
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If there were any prospect of tourism to such a huge expensive reproduction (iow, if there were actual floor plans still in existence — any such probably burned up in the Great Fire of London), that would probably be underway right now.
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