For nearly five long years, the Frick closed for a $330 million renovation, its grounds torn up, its buildings covered in scaffolding and netting, and its treasures moved a few blocks uptown to the ...
Elton, professor of history at the University of Cambridge, upended the field with this book, proclaiming Thomas Cromwell “the most remarkable revolutionary in English history.” Elton argued that ...
In the culmination of the Hilary Mantel adaptation, Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell becomes a more poignant figure, weighed ...
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Hilary Mantel's crafting of Cromwell as a charismatic leader matures audiences’ understanding of historical narratives, yet it raises intriguing questions about historical accuracy. While Mantel's ...
President Trump’s umbrage at the portrait of himself hanging at the Colorado Capitol may be a choice, but it is hardly novel ...
The BBC's archive showcases the best of TV across various genres, but it truly excels in what the BBC does best: delivering ...
Here's Thomas Cromwell at New York's Frick Collection, trapped in canvas by the Tudor court painter Hans Holbein: thick ...
A decade after “Wolf Hall” debuted on television to sensational reviews, creator (and recent Oscar-winner for “Conclave”) ...
With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...
Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...
The return of "Wolf Hall," based on Hilary Mantel's novel, captures Thomas Cromwell's final years and the complexities of power.