Thursday 17 February 2011

Faerie Queen

I found this cut out in an old book I was given as a child on the Tudors. It explains the popularity of a fictional faerie character based on Elizabeth I. I have looked for more evidence of this character but can only find that the character came about through a poem written by Edmund Spenser and that various artists incorporated the character into their paintings, all with different idea's of aesthetics.

Other opinions on the character say that this poem was based on a prophecy regarding the Saxon's ruling England, which was later adopted by the Tudors.



I may take the Faerie Queen idea forward to help fuse the organic architecture and Tudor genres.

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