I'm Henery the Eighth I am...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by DinoDoc

We watched The Six Wives of Henry VIII together, at least up through Cate Howard, whom he also had beheaded. This more or less cemented BG's idea of him as a monster and she started having nightmares about being trapped with a murderous husband who'd have you killed so he could go on his next conquest. Twice her nightmares were so bad she started screaming, one time running out of the bedroom and almost out of the apartment . . . naked. Once I caught her sneaking out of the bedroom, tiptoing so as not to wake me up so I wouldn't catch her and kill her (I had become H8 in her dream). I'm like, "What are you doing?" And she says to me, "What are you doing?" about which point she woke all the way up and started laughing at herself.

Thank god she didn't watch the sixth episode, where Catherine Parr had to beg for her life because of her religious views.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara



Thank god she didn't watch the sixth episode, where Catherine Parr had to beg for her life because of her religious views.

Catherine P. did well for herself out of marriage, seeing off two husbands before Tudorballs.


I'll see if I can find you a set of postcards from the exhibition che, or a poster.

[chequita guevara]

What is the symbolism of the squirrel and bird?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
What is the symbolism of the squirrel and bird?

She's nuts for feathers....

Who was Holbein's Lady with a squirrel and a starling? Ever since it was acquired by the National Gallery, London, in 1992 this celebrated English portrait by Holbein has remained tantalisingly anonymous. A detective trail has led David J King to East Harling in Norfolk, where clues in stained glass and a tomb reveal the sitter's identity.

The portrait of a Lady with a squirrel and a starling by Hans Holbein the Younger, in the National Gallery, London (Fig. 1), has hitherto defied all attempts at identifying its subject, a demurely but well-dressed young woman sitting against a plain blue background and holding in her lap a pet squirrel on a chain eating a nut. A starling, perhaps also a pet, sits on a fig tree in the background with its beak pointing at her right ear. It has been suggested that the pets may have an heraldic or other significance which could lead to her identity, and that the lady's resemblance to one of the figures in the preparatory drawing for the lost painting of the family of Sir Thomas More points to her having come from More's family or acquaintances, or at least from the influential court circles from whom Holbein drew his clientele at this time. The portrait is dated by general agreement on style to Holbein's first visit to England, in 1526-28.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_507_159/ai_n6137152

Some Holbein to give Bunnygrrl: