Permanent display
Closing soon
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
10 Oct 2022 — 8 Jan 2023 at Metropolitan Museum of Art
· New York City
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England was a major exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2022. It brought together paintings, sculptures, textiles, manuscripts, and decorative objects to illuminate the artistic ambitions and political pageantry of the Tudor dynasty, which ruled England from 1485 to 1603.
Spanning the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, the exhibition examined how the Tudors harnessed the visual arts as instruments of power, identity, and diplomacy. Works by leading court artists — many of them brought to England from the Continent — revealed the dynasty's eager engagement with Renaissance humanism and its drive to project an image of magnificence on the European stage.
The show offered visitors a rare opportunity to encounter iconic portraits, sumptuous royal regalia, and intimate devotional objects side by side, tracing the transformation of English art and court culture across more than a century of dynastic rule.
Spanning the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, the exhibition examined how the Tudors harnessed the visual arts as instruments of power, identity, and diplomacy. Works by leading court artists — many of them brought to England from the Continent — revealed the dynasty's eager engagement with Renaissance humanism and its drive to project an image of magnificence on the European stage.
The show offered visitors a rare opportunity to encounter iconic portraits, sumptuous royal regalia, and intimate devotional objects side by side, tracing the transformation of English art and court culture across more than a century of dynastic rule.
About the venue
Metropolitan Museum of Art
· New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas. With 5,727,258 visitors in fiscal year 2025, it was the most-visited museum in…
