Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

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CHAPTER V
THE ART COLLECTIONS
The interest of the art collections:the china:the glass mostly
destroyed. — 2. The tapestries: embroidered hangings: beds:
Wolsey's collection of tapestry:the great Watching Chamber:
an unidentified subject: the triumph of Fate or Death: characteristics
of the work:the Seven Cardinal Virtues and the Seven
Deadly Sins: Flemish work:the Horn room: Bernhard van
Orlay:the history of Abraham:its value:the different subjects:
the richness of treatment. — 3. Tapestries under Queen
Elizabeth:in the Commonwealth: at the Restoration:under
George I.: needlework: famous beds:carved chairs. — 4. The
pictures:general classification: the panel pictures in the Confessionary.
— 5. The Tudor pictures:Elizabeth'sporter :scenes from
the reign of Henry VIII.:portraits of the King:other persons
of the age: the Holbeins:Sir Antonio More :Mary Queen of
Scots: the four portraits of Elizabeth. — 6. The collection of
Charles I.: James I.'s pictures as illustrations of the history of
his time:Vandyke, a prince of Court painters:Rubens:minor
artists: the great worksinCharles I.'sgallery. — 7. The Triumph
of Julius Cæsar by Mantegna: the history of the purchase:the
condition and the position of the pictures: characteristics of
Mantegna's work, illustrative of the Renaissance:the dignity of
ancient Rome:an account of each scene of the Triumph: other
works of Mantegna with the same idea. — 8. Other Mantuan
acquisitions in Charles's gallery:fifteenth - century painters:
Jerome Bosch: sixteenth century;Giulio Romano:Milanese
school:Venetians:theShepherdof Giorgione: " The Concert: "
Lorenzo Lotto: minor masters: Tintoretto: Dosso Dossi:
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