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Tudor Liveliness? Discovering Vividness in Post-Reformation England
In Tudor England, artworks were often described as ‘lively’. What did this mean in a culture where naturalism was an alien concept? And in a time of religious upheaval, when the misuse of images might lure the soul to hell, how could liveliness be a good thing? In this talk we’ll explore a hitherto neglected aspect of Tudor art, re-enlivening the period’s vivid visual and material culture and discovering how artists were able to make absent things present, and make the dead live.
Dr Christina Faraday is an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Among her other contributions, she is the host of the British Art Matters podcast. Her latest book is titled Tudor Liveliness: Vivid art in Post-Reformation England (Yale University Press, 2023).
Date:
22 October 2025, 17:00
Venue:
Radcliffe Observatory
Venue Details:
Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Speaker:
Christina Faraday
Organising department:
Department of History of Art
Part of:
History of Art Research Seminars
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Belinda Clark
