This was incredible! This technology should be used in classrooms. I think most kids would be more interested in learning about history when they can get an idea of what these people looked like. That they were REAL people, and not just portrait images in a book. It just brings it to such a different level! SO impressed with this!
Well say goodbye to real art skills and real artists. I actually picked up with a lot of problems with what this guy does. As an artist reproducer sure, but as an actual artist not so much.
book that she holds in her hands on teenage portrait is the one that she gifted to his father(Henry VIII) for birthday or somekind of holiday( book contains translations from different languages) , she was soooo intelligent, she is 13 on this painting and she already knew at least 3 languages...if not more( I dont remember all the details anymore) but sadly for Elizabeth , she was Henrys least favorite child, he left Edward and Mary a wayy bigger fortune than he left to Elizabeth and also he restored Mary to the succession but not Elizabeth, thanks to Catherine Parr he finally restored Elizabeth to succession as well....when he was already dying , Henry was just awful to Elizabeth but look at her legacy now....I think taht almost everybody knows who is Elizabeth I
Elizabeths features looked more like her mom but her hair and skin tone was her dad's, just as I imagined her, excellent. I love history and the Tudors, seeing how you bring them to life is brilliant. Thank you for sharing your talents 👌🌟☮️🇬🇧
We don't know how Anne Boleyn's face really looked like. None of her portraits were contemporary. They were just a reimagination, based on Elizabeth's facial features.
@@barbaradenicomedia114 Anne was very intelligent she just let her emotions get the best of her which in turn helped Henry to decide her fate. The execution of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard would traumatize any young child. What was more important a husband or keeping your head?
Henry VIII was a red head. There are early paintings showing him as a young, slim and the very athletic man he was. It might be nice to see him other than in the last portrait he commissioned
His younger years he was fit. He started gaining weight after Anne Boleyn. So no, he didn’t spend majority of his life in shape. For his last two wives- he was an enormous boar.
@@krazyshorty89 He had some kind of ulcer in his leg that never healed that went from swollen to leaking to swollen again and again so mobility was bad after that and he got really really fat. That will happen when you eat like a king and don't move much.
@@ericbitzer5247 Back then they wore really tight bands to hold the stockings up which created poor circulation so when there was a small wound , and he went on ALOT of hunts etc, the wound could never heal. Plus he had terrible gout, poor eating habits. Much like Americans eating sugar and white flour and Coca-Cola's get diabetes which also causes poor circulation and limbs and toes rot so must be amputated.
Henry only spent a short percentage of his life overweight but every example of him is always with weight on. One day I want to see one of him in his youth as the tall athletic man, I recon he was a sight to see back when the average man was around 5’6
Henry's mother, Elizabeth of York was 6ft tall and her father, King Edward IV was said to be around 6ft 4ins tall. I personally believe King Henry who stood around 6ft 3ins or 6ft 4 ins tall, took after his grandfather, KIng Edward IV, who was known to be affable and fair when dealings with his subjects, but became cruel and unforgiving as he aged. This was probably due to the amount of treachery he encounted, but also because many leaders become paranoid after being in power for many years.
Besides the obvious hair colors being WAY OFF, I feel like this is the most accurate to what Henry & Elizabeth I would have looked like in real life. The Anne boyelyn might be off due to her portrait being made well after her death during the Elizabethan error.
Can we guess their 100% real hair colour? I mean those paintings could be re-painted/refreshed? many times in history with different materials/paint colour
The Anne Boleyn one is most definitely off in with ways because all of the portraits of her created in her life time were destroyed by Henry. The Elizabeth and Henry ones are very accurate later in his life.
@@MrAmerilias written records talk about their hair colors. Henry VIII was a known redhead. Elizabeth’s hair on this looked too reddish brown. She was a fiery frizzy pale-faced red headed woman. She had a cousin named Lettice who looked like her and was also a redhead.
Barbara T Yes, you are right. No I meant putting all six of them together. Maybe after Catherine of Aragon instead of Anne Boleyn we could put Queen Mary I. In another video instead, King Henry VII, King Edward VI and Henry Fitzroy would be very interesting because he is really good.
@Itchy Witchy On The Puss Mary I was quite lovely as a woman, don't know why they push this agenda of her being "Bloody Mary" while her predecesors definitely got rid of more people than her 🤷🏻♀️ I think of her as a very lost person, nothing scary about her.. She didn't even got rid of Elizabeth I (her step sister for the account of Elizabeth I knowing there was a riot in her name) when she had the chance to
This is amazing work. I only recommend that the teenage Elizabeth and Henry are redheads. That said, it feels ridiculous to complain considering how much has gone into making this. Truly, this is amazing.
So cool. The original paintings are devoid of life, and any detail in their features so they are hard to visualize as real people. With the realism, Anne is much more appealing so it's easier to understand the kings obsession with her. Only thing I didnt care for was the unnatural blinking. Lol
anne's appearance is not the reason anyone was smitten with her. she was intelligent and well traveled and could keep up intellectually with the men around her.
@@sl7883 Not exactly, she was not blonde, and fair skinned yes, but she had very dark and beautiful eyes. Also she had style and grace, being a great dancer.
I have to disagree about the portraits being devoid of life. I am in the very fortunate position to have seen some of these paintings in person, and the artistry, techniques and colours really do enliven the faces. Perhaps they just don't do well on a screen.
Yes, I find the blinking to be a little bit strange, like they have weak eyes in strong sunlight. I'd like to see their entire bodies move around too. Interesting stuff-- I always look at these videos.
This is brilliant! Elizabeth seems to have taken after her mother, IMHO. To see historical figures brought to life like this makes them so much more real. Thank you for taking the time to share this.
I have recently become aware of your excellent work. In viewing others presentations on the same topic, I thank you for immersing the viewer from beginning to end in the period. There is no “shop talk” only the appropriate music for the time. Thank you for taking care of all the details so we can enjoy the experience.
I'd love to see you do the rest of Henry VIII's wives as well as his lesser known children (Mary I, Henry Fitzroy and Edward VI). Also, maybe a younger Henry VIII, since no one does a modern version of him and he was supposed to be a real looker.
Thank you for sharing . Fantastic and so interesting . I’m British and definitely see the British features come out in their faces . With the older Elizabeth I was particularly pleased as the painting of her always looked so stern and not particularly pretty but you bringing her to life made her look normal and attractive and I’m for some strange reason pleased about that for her . Thank you .
Amazing.Just amazing.Elisabeth seems to be not only pretty but also very intelligent and definitely has an i m teresting face. Great job with her parents too!
We don't know how Anne Boleyn really looked like. None of her portraits were contemporary; they were just a reimagination, based on Elizabeth's facial features.
Is it just me or does Henry have a crazily common face? P.s. I would could you do the "wives" especially Anne of Cleves ?Henry insisted she looked like a horse instead of Holbein's rendition .
I've always thought Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves were the most beautiful of his wives, imho. I'd be def interested in a fella's opinion on the beauty of Henry's wives, just out of curiosity.💯👍
@@MorrigansRaven3944 but the painted portray of Anne of Cleve is the first well known case of an "Tinder-date- scam" in history 😁 she was painted way to pretty as I know from historical documentarys. When they had shown her portrait to Henry, he falls for her on the spot... but as he saw her first time for real in "flesh and blood" he was disappointed as hell 😂 and as we know that magical fairly tale like story didn't last that long 😅
@@MorrigansRaven3944 i agree with you. I find the two of them to be the most beautiful wives too. Their facial features are so pretty. If i had the time and skill to do this, I'd do Catherine immediately
Yes, and they should use one if Anne's portraits pained in Germany instead of the Holbein paintings. That would prove that she never looked like an ugly horse and was actually attractive
I wish that everyone notable in this period had had a portrait bust of painted wood made of them, the way Henry VII did. When you look at that piece, it's so detailed and precise that you almost expect him to speak. Sadly, most of the portraits in this period weren't the work of the greatest artists. Stefan Zweig, in his biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, commented: "Again and again, one regrets that Mary was never painted by a truly great artist. The portraits of her that have survived give no indication of the magnetic charm that this remarkable woman had."
not sure if you have done it yet but can you do one on famous artists like Van Gogh, Da vinci, Michelangelo, etc please? 🙏 I would really appreciate it. Amazing work by the way! I’m addicted.
Panagiotis, You are a genius! I love history and especially "Tudor" history... These works bring it all to life and make it more raw, more real to me!!! They all look slightly bewildered at being resurrected for our perusal... Thankyou!
This is amazing! I cannot wait to see more. I’d love to see some famous portrait subjects brought to life, like Mona Lisa or the girl with the pearl earring etc.
I'm so glad that he takes the time to do this I love it because when you love studying people from the past and you can put face's to whom you are studying and being able to bring them to life and see what they really look like it just doesn't get any better than that thank you
I'd be interested in seeing how Mary Queen of Scots looks compared to Elizabeth. At least some histories I've read suggest Mary was far more attractive than Elizabeth, but your portrayal makes Elizabeth quite beautiful IMHO. Maybe they had a thing against gingers even back then.
The red hair was a strong gene in the Tudor family. Due to political expediency and Henry 8 being bat crap crazy, he said he doubted Elizabeth’s paternity. Realistically, he was the only one though. Every contemporary source said that Elizabeth was Henry’s mini me, in looks and personality. Edward and Mary, the “legitimate heirs” took after their mother’s quite a bit, but Elizabeth was all Henry.
@@leiaclark8388 I agree in many ways. I also feel like Elizabeth was more like Henry than Mary and Edward in terms of personality. When it comes to looks, Mary, Elizabeth and Edward all looked like a mix of both their parents. Mary had Henry's hair colour, Catherine's facial structure (thank god) and her fair skin and blue eyes came from both her parents. Elizabeth had Anne's facial structure and eye colour with Henry's hair colour. Elizabeth was actually said to look very very similar to Anne (face). It was her hair, charisma and personality that made her more like Henry. Edward's face looks like a mix of Henry and Jane. His fair skin, hair and eyes could have come from either of them. When Mary was a child, her hair colour was lighter like Catherine's, but when she grew older, it became a darker red, like Henry's. Some of her portraits show her with dark brown hair because some paints darken over centuries. And i also agree with you on the fact that Mary and Edward had more of their mothers' personalities than Henry's, especially Mary. She was basically Catherine's mini me, imo.
It’s amazing to see them fleshed out. Definitely humanises them more. I think Elizabeth resembles her mother & father when they’ve had the CGI treatment but Anne & Henry look quite alike too so maybe it’s more about the painters style than genetics. Who knows? Brilliant work👌🏻
Weren’t there portraits of Anne Boleyn painted later, from original portraits which were eventually destroyed or lost? I think the Hever Castle portrait is one of these
You've done a great job here (who knew a young Henry VIII looked like a hipster?)! I would love to see just every painting ever be brought to life the way you have here. This should be your job and you museums should pay you to create interactive opportunities for visitors to have a conversation with a full-on hologram of people from history. Think of the research into how they spoke and how their voices might have sounded but bring their language into the 21st century. We could ask what they think about anything, or what they had for breakfast that morning. I'm getting a real sense that this is how it's going to be in the near future.
Lovely music.....an extremely intelligent, sophisticated woman and monarch. Mighty Queen for her people and herself....respect, to her and your work!!!✨
I can promise you Elizabeth did not look like that in her older years. Due to the years of lead face makeup her skin was so bad it appeared to be melting off along with extreme aging all due to the lead paint. It was said she wore it to be almost an inch thick in later years to hide the damage done. This is what I learned in college don’t come at me please lol
There is only one reference to "bad" teeth which is by a visitor to the court who didn't get closer than 30 feet to QEI. We have ONE reference to her having a toothache (and being very worried about having the tooth pulled. There is a story that one of her courtiers offered to have a healthy tooth pulled to show her it was all ok). Though QEI had access to expensive sugar, it was still VERY VERY expensive to import and so most of the time, it was not served except to impress important visitors. QEI was known to be fairly frugal in her eating habits and tended to dine privately and simply. In terms of "makeup", there were various kinds. We haven't much in the way of references to what QEI did use. I've looked up a number of inventories we have and not much referring to the items that would be used for "makeup". We have a wealth of information on what clothing, jewellery and other things the Queen had as part of her wardrobe. Its not that she would not have used them but its not as likely she used it as much as we think. For example, modernly we "assume" she was bald, yet in 1601 when the Earl of Essex came to her rooms when she was dressing, he found her "in her hair" which was white and long. Yes, she wore wigs, but thats due to her wanting to retain a red colour and frankly trying spending hours whilst someone turns your hair into those elaborate coiffures is utterly boring (been there, done that). Its worth reading Sally Pointer's book "The Artifice of Beauty" which looks at makeup and beauty methods through history - and also recreates some of the (safer) "makeup" through time. I have used some of them which were safer. And Elizabethans knew very well that white lead was *not good* and it wasn't that popular (it was also expensive too). (College tutors may not have the up to date information and research. I researched health and hygiene in the 16th century for a lecture I gave on the topic a number of years back).
@@myladyswardrobe seems we both went to college for history however I never did anything with the degree lol. She would have had thinning hair but a large hair line anyways being that the large forehead would have been in style so they plucked the hair line.
According to this, Elizabeth I and her mother Anne Boleyn were quite fetching! Henry was kinda handsome himself! I'm American, but I've always been intrigued with British royalty...especially going back to the Tudors.
The portrait that was shown of Anne Boleyn and any other portraits of Anne weren’t created in her lifetime, when she was still alive. There were portraits but Henry destroyed them all. From historic sources she sounded like a great beauty, had brown hair, a slim appearance and most likely brown eyes. Closed to how Natalie Portman looks, or Natalie Dormer who played her in the tudors with how her features looked during the tudors. Pretty sad how people made up lies about Anne and just later her appearance like example that she had “6 fingers” those accounts are just bias and not reliable.
If you enjoy the Tudor period and the tudors. You should watch the show “The tudors” on lifetime for free, get on insight on Henry in his earlier years, his last years married to Catherine of Aragon and how Anne fell it to the place, and all the other 4 wives and young Elizabeth, Mary, Edward.
Great once again! If requests are possible, and since you are on the English now, I would love to see Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, come to life!
Henry 8th was said to be very good looking when he was younger. It was only after he hurt his leg that he started putting on weight. This was very enjoyable. Thanks, Panagiotis! Greetings to you from Australia.
Oh, I also just requested that too. Also, for that matter George Boleyn and Mary Boleyn, why not? There are some good portraits of George and Lord Robert around on google
My only issue with things like this are that for the most part they probably aren't that accurate. Portraits of monarchs through history have been known to be painted as more beautiful by the artists so who know for sure what they truly looked like. Follow up, the computer smoothed the bumps in Elizabeth and her mother's nose to fit more ideal standards we have now. Not to mention the lack of face cleaners and the literal poison makeup queen Elizabeth was known for.
She got that Plantagenet blood. They were all supposed to be very good looking. Her great grandparents on her fathers side, her grandmother was the most “beautiful woman on the island”. Her GGG was a tall handsome hunk, and her grandmother Elizabeth of York was a renowned beauty herself. Heck, her father was supposed to have been “the handsomest prince in Christendom”. Those Plantagenet genes seem to have been very dominant, as you can read about how good looking they were at least back to Edward I. Even the first Plantagenet, Philip, was called “The Fair” because he was so handsome.
I thought Anne's eyes were brown, like Elizabeths but they dont look brown until the last pic of Elizabeth which looks fantatic! Thanks for doing these time machine videos where we can meet the people of the past.
I would LOVE to see one of Henry and his six wives, especially to show the change in Henry from when he first wed Catherine to how he ended up at the time of his death. He used to be very fit and handsome.
I think this is amazing!! I love how it brings everyone to life and how real it seems. :) Thank you for creating this. :) (But, as a side note, I don't imagine Henry VIII's eyes looking quite so innocent as that...)
Then u might b interested in a Roman dig recently.Among other things there was the skeleton of a young slave with his ankles still fettered.Its thought the poor lad either fell ill or couldn't keep up on a forced march.So he was left behind to die alone in a ditch.That saddens me.But then,must admit the Roman period is not one of my favs.
Elizabeth had the same imposing presence as her father, although in present times he would never stand out. Anne Boleyn looks better in person! This work is amazing!
Apparently young Elizabeth only needed one earring ;) I thought Henry the VIII was a red head? This really is amazing how you do this.. ! Thanks for making these people real.🥰💐🌵🌞🌱🌿🏜️💗🥰💐🌵🌞🌱🌿🏜️💗
Interesting and worthwhile video. Elizabeth I had a pocked face from smallpox and her teeth were rotten from sugar consumption. She wore heavy makeup to cover the pox scars.
So amazing, I really love your channel!!! Please do Edward VI, the rest of Henry VIII’s wives, Henry Fitzroy, Elizabeth of York… more of the Plantagenets!!!!
Thank you dear Panagiotis Constantinou for bringing history to life. Brilliant work. Seeing all these historical people coming to life is breathtaking.
@@coconutmix actually make up was available to the higher classes. Elizabeth I's contained lead and did a lot of damage to her skin. It actually had more to do with the painting style of the time frame
@@amandacazares82 , Elizabeth's was just making her more pale just like putting white powder on. The make up they had before didn't make them prettier but the computer facial reconstruction does.
@Omniscient_ Turnip , I don't think English kings during the 14th century would marry a full-blooded African. They only take someone with noble blood. Her father was the Duke of Norfolk. She probably had an ancestor from Africa like most people.
curious why you did not make elizabeth's hair much more red? she and her father were notorious for their red hair. i believe i have seen some reports of it being somewhat strawberry blond in their youth? also a question: does the program you use read the hair at the ears as straight/cut as in a pixie hairstyle? i ask because the women's pictures (except where elizabeth is shown with longer hair) looks very short, where we know that it would be long and pulled back. i do enjoy these transformations and thank you for posting. it really brings history to life!
This is fascinating! It would be amazing to see the faces of Henry's 6 wives, his mother and his grandmothers. The Tudor women are very intriguing but they have so little portraits. (I think Elizabeth of York has a death mask, however.)
This was incredible! This technology should be used in classrooms. I think most kids would be more interested in learning about history when they can get an idea of what these people looked like. That they were REAL people, and not just portrait images in a book. It just brings it to such a different level! SO impressed with this!
not to mention their interest on computer programming..
Not only that, but an advanced version could be brought to museums
Agreed,We do historical reenactments & it's very popular with youngsters-especially the gory bits!LOL
i agree
Well say goodbye to real art skills and real artists. I actually picked up with a lot of problems with what this guy does. As an artist reproducer sure, but as an actual artist not so much.
Elizabeth’s rel life portrait made her look very much like her mother, Anne.
Yes she had her mother’s eyes!
does she have an Asian gene?
Agreed! Definitely had her mother’s eyes!
Anne died to make sure Elizabeth ascended the throne- I think she would have been proud of Elizabeth
I totally thought so too
I find this CGI fascinating and creepy at the same time
The twitchy eyes are weird and disturbing.
Yep. Lol
@@robertcrusader5019 And the moving lips...but I also can't stop watching...
Did they all look cross eyed, or is that just me?
The potential for deep fakes are the creepiest part.
love this especially elizabeth as a teenager, she seems so lively and intelligent and at the same time relatable and very teenager-like
She really does. Makes them so much more real/relatable after watching these videos
book that she holds in her hands on teenage portrait is the one that she gifted to his father(Henry VIII) for birthday or somekind of holiday( book contains translations from different languages) , she was soooo intelligent, she is 13 on this painting and she already knew at least 3 languages...if not more( I dont remember all the details anymore) but sadly for Elizabeth , she was Henrys least favorite child, he left Edward and Mary a wayy bigger fortune than he left to Elizabeth and also he restored Mary to the succession but not Elizabeth, thanks to Catherine Parr he finally restored Elizabeth to succession as well....when he was already dying , Henry was just awful to Elizabeth but look at her legacy now....I think taht almost everybody knows who is Elizabeth I
"shut up and get out of her room-mah....she just wants to listen to her arctic monkeys cd in peace, GOD....🙄"
H K, she spoke french,Latin and Greek for sure and I've been told she could speak Welsh which makes sense considering her ancestry
At the age of four, she was learning French, Italian, Latin and Greek, along with her native English!
Elizabeths features looked more like her mom but her hair and skin tone was her dad's, just as I imagined her, excellent. I love history and the Tudors, seeing how you bring them to life is brilliant. Thank you for sharing your talents 👌🌟☮️🇬🇧
We don't know how Anne Boleyn's face really looked like. None of her portraits were contemporary. They were just a reimagination, based on Elizabeth's facial features.
Combined with Henry's red hair and Anne Boleyn's fiery spirit, wit, and intelligence I bet Elizabeth was a real firecracker..lol
At all. Elizabeth was really inteligent, her mother was not. Look how both ended.
@@barbaradenicomedia114 Anne was very intelligent she just let her emotions get the best of her which in turn helped Henry to decide her fate. The execution of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard would traumatize any young child. What was more important a husband or keeping your head?
I find
She was said to be beautiful in her youth! With attractive parents more so! But disease might have diminished that!
@@barbaradenicomedia114 Anne was intelligent.
Henry VIII was a red head. There are early paintings showing him as a young, slim and the very athletic man he was. It might be nice to see him other than in the last portrait he commissioned
His younger years he was fit. He started gaining weight after Anne Boleyn. So no, he didn’t spend majority of his life in shape. For his last two wives- he was an enormous boar.
@@krazyshorty89 He had some kind of ulcer in his leg that never healed that went from swollen to leaking to swollen again and again so mobility was bad after that and he got really really fat. That will happen when you eat like a king and don't move much.
@@krazyshorty89 But still handsome.
He also had blue eyes
@@ericbitzer5247 Back then they wore really tight bands to hold the stockings up which created poor circulation so when there was a small wound , and he went on ALOT of hunts etc, the wound could never heal. Plus he had terrible gout, poor eating habits. Much like Americans eating sugar and white flour and Coca-Cola's get diabetes which also causes poor circulation and limbs and toes rot so must be amputated.
Lol! King Henry sure looked like the average Best Buy employee.
Or Walmart lol
The whole Tudor family were ugly people.
@Kris LVgirl I would say ACE Hardware or like the manager at Pep Boys or something. I bet old Henry is rolling around in his grave at that! LOL!
@@dandyrevisionist7879 hypocrite lol
@@madman8319 no, stating the obvious is not being hypocrite.
Henry only spent a short percentage of his life overweight but every example of him is always with weight on. One day I want to see one of him in his youth as the tall athletic man, I recon he was a sight to see back when the average man was around 5’6
Henry's mother, Elizabeth of York was 6ft tall and her father, King Edward IV was said to be around 6ft 4ins tall. I personally believe King Henry who stood around 6ft 3ins or 6ft 4 ins tall, took after his grandfather, KIng Edward IV, who was known to be affable and fair when dealings with his subjects, but became cruel and unforgiving as he aged. This was probably due to the amount of treachery he encounted, but also because many leaders become paranoid after being in power for many years.
He also reportedly had red hair.
@@joyceneville9214 I wounded where the red hair cam from
Bit like how all Elvis impersonators tend to be fat lol
Yes I would like to see a more younger Henry .
Dare I say, Elizabeth looks quite stunning in your renderings.
Elizabeth looked a lot like her mother.
She really did
I believe she inherited her intelligence from Anne as well.
This particular part of history is a favorite haunt of mine. I couldn't click fast enough, on this one! The teen Elizabeth is so striking and real!!
Besides the obvious hair colors being WAY OFF, I feel like this is the most accurate to what Henry & Elizabeth I would have looked like in real life.
The Anne boyelyn might be off due to her portrait being made well after her death during the Elizabethan error.
Can we guess their 100% real hair colour? I mean those paintings could be re-painted/refreshed? many times in history with different materials/paint colour
@@MrAmerilias Yes. Historical sources.
The Anne Boleyn one is most definitely off in with ways because all of the portraits of her created in her life time were destroyed by Henry. The Elizabeth and Henry ones are very accurate later in his life.
@@MrAmerilias written records talk about their hair colors. Henry VIII was a known redhead. Elizabeth’s hair on this looked too reddish brown. She was a fiery frizzy pale-faced red headed woman. She had a cousin named Lettice who looked like her and was also a redhead.
Thank you for all your answers
Bring also Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. Please ❤❤❤. You are very very good!
Anne Boleyn was one he did.
Barbara T
Yes, you are right. No I meant putting all six of them together. Maybe after Catherine of Aragon instead of Anne Boleyn we could put Queen Mary I. In another video instead, King Henry VII, King Edward VI and Henry Fitzroy would be very interesting because he is really good.
@Itchy Witchy On The Puss how exactly?
@Itchy Witchy On The Puss Mary I was quite lovely as a woman, don't know why they push this agenda of her being "Bloody Mary" while her predecesors definitely got rid of more people than her 🤷🏻♀️ I think of her as a very lost person, nothing scary about her.. She didn't even got rid of Elizabeth I (her step sister for the account of Elizabeth I knowing there was a riot in her name) when she had the chance to
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She started a reign of terror during which hundreds were burnt at the stake. Not nice.
This is amazing work. I only recommend that the teenage Elizabeth and Henry are redheads. That said, it feels ridiculous to complain considering how much has gone into making this. Truly, this is amazing.
Exactly!
So cool. The original paintings are devoid of life, and any detail in their features so they are hard to visualize as real people. With the realism, Anne is much more appealing so it's easier to understand the kings obsession with her. Only thing I didnt care for was the unnatural blinking. Lol
anne's appearance is not the reason anyone was smitten with her. she was intelligent and well traveled and could keep up intellectually with the men around her.
@@sl7883 Not exactly, she was not blonde, and fair skinned yes, but she had very dark and beautiful eyes. Also she had style and grace, being a great dancer.
it is artifice, not realism, though
I have to disagree about the portraits being devoid of life. I am in the very fortunate position to have seen some of these paintings in person, and the artistry, techniques and colours really do enliven the faces. Perhaps they just don't do well on a screen.
Yes, I find the blinking to be a little bit strange, like they have weak eyes in strong sunlight. I'd like to see their entire bodies move around too. Interesting stuff-- I always look at these videos.
I love how Walsingham has that cunning look in his eyes and sly little smile. Your work is absolutely incredible!
This is brilliant! Elizabeth seems to have taken after her mother, IMHO. To see historical figures brought to life like this makes them so much more real. Thank you for taking the time to share this.
I think you had young Elizabeth absolutely perfect. I love you work. If I understand correctly, Henry had blondish hair with a slightly red tint.
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Henry was a redhead.
Does anyone know what color eyes Henry VIii & Elizabeth 1 had?
@@bonnielong5812 Henry's was blue I think. Elizabeth had her mother's dark eyes dark brown or black depending on the source.
@@bonnielong5812 Henry VIII had blue eyes, a "rich blue"; Elizabeth I had her mother's brown eyes. This uploader got them wrong.
I would love to see French Monarchs real faces like Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
Pinterest, Marie and Louis both have actual death masks… online I suppose
It's done. Look for it, you'll find it. Check out Mystery Scoop portraits.
Marie Antoinette is done very pretty
Me too, most especially my baby Louis XIV!!
I have recently become aware of your excellent work. In viewing others presentations on the same topic, I thank you for immersing the viewer from beginning to end in the period. There is no “shop talk” only the appropriate music for the time. Thank you for taking care of all the details so we can enjoy the experience.
Thank you for your kind words 🙂
I'd love to see you do the rest of Henry VIII's wives as well as his lesser known children (Mary I, Henry Fitzroy and Edward VI). Also, maybe a younger Henry VIII, since no one does a modern version of him and he was supposed to be a real looker.
Yes!
I'd love to see Mary. Both her childhood portraits and her adult portraits.
Here’s Mary I- th-cam.com/video/9XUw90wmY_4/w-d-xo.html
As well as Elizabeth's supposed lover, The Earl of Liester ... ?sp
Yes!!!!
Thank you for sharing . Fantastic and so interesting . I’m British and definitely see the British features come out in their faces . With the older Elizabeth I was particularly pleased as the painting of her always looked so stern and not particularly pretty but you bringing her to life made her look normal and attractive and I’m for some strange reason pleased about that for her . Thank you .
Ur welcome 😉 I got to say that old Elizabeth looks like Susan Sarandon ... so strange
@@panagiotisconstantinou Yes , I agree . 👍🏻
Amazing.Just amazing.Elisabeth seems to be not only pretty but also very intelligent and definitely has an i m teresting face. Great job with her parents too!
Not all portrait artists back then were good at their craft.
@Joseph Percy yes, a very, very big director asked me for a few renders, that I provided for free (will not tell who)
Love this you have caught her intelligence and humour and stripped away her Majesty. She's very human. Congrats.
This was wonderful, the similarities between Elizabeth and mother Anne are really fantastic.
We don't know how Anne Boleyn really looked like. None of her portraits were contemporary; they were just a reimagination, based on Elizabeth's facial features.
Is it just me or does Henry have a crazily common face?
P.s. I would could you do the "wives" especially Anne of Cleves ?Henry insisted she looked like a horse instead of Holbein's rendition .
I've always thought Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves were the most beautiful of his wives, imho. I'd be def interested in a fella's opinion on the beauty of Henry's wives, just out of curiosity.💯👍
@@MorrigansRaven3944 but the painted portray of Anne of Cleve is the first well known case of an "Tinder-date- scam" in history 😁 she was painted way to pretty as I know from historical documentarys.
When they had shown her portrait to Henry, he falls for her on the spot... but as he saw her first time for real in "flesh and blood" he was disappointed as hell 😂 and as we know that magical fairly tale like story didn't last that long 😅
@@Suggi-gy6vh Bet it never occured to him that Anne might have found him as unattractive as he found her!
@@MorrigansRaven3944 i agree with you. I find the two of them to be the most beautiful wives too. Their facial features are so pretty. If i had the time and skill to do this, I'd do Catherine immediately
Yes, and they should use one if Anne's portraits pained in Germany instead of the Holbein paintings. That would prove that she never looked like an ugly horse and was actually attractive
I love how the music is from Stronghold
You're right! That was a fun game.
I wish that everyone notable in this period had had a portrait bust of painted wood made of them, the way Henry VII did. When you look at that piece, it's so detailed and precise that you almost expect him to speak. Sadly, most of the portraits in this period weren't the work of the greatest artists. Stefan Zweig, in his biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, commented: "Again and again, one regrets that Mary was never painted by a truly great artist. The portraits of her that have survived give no indication of the magnetic charm that this remarkable woman had."
not sure if you have done it yet but can you do one on famous artists like Van Gogh, Da vinci, Michelangelo, etc please? 🙏 I would really appreciate it. Amazing work by the way! I’m addicted.
Ah, this would be really cool
History junkie here, these are fascinating! You earned yourself a new subscriber!👍
She was gorgeous! And so is your work! You are an authentic artist! I love your work! Congrats!!👏👏
What you do has to be one of the most interesting things I have seen.
Panagiotis, You are a genius! I love history and especially "Tudor" history... These works bring it all to life and make it more raw, more real to me!!! They all look slightly bewildered at being resurrected for our perusal... Thankyou!
This is amazing! I cannot wait to see more. I’d love to see some famous portrait subjects brought to life, like Mona Lisa or the girl with the pearl earring etc.
You have to also show us Lord Robert Dudley!
Yes, that would be great.
I'm so glad that he takes the time to do this I love it because when you love studying people from the past and you can put face's to whom you are studying and being able to bring them to life and see what they really look like it just doesn't get any better than that thank you
Thank you doing these! It really helps bring history to life. Oddly, it also makes the stories of the past more easily comprehensible.
I'd be interested in seeing how Mary Queen of Scots looks compared to Elizabeth. At least some histories I've read suggest Mary was far more attractive than Elizabeth, but your portrayal makes Elizabeth quite beautiful IMHO. Maybe they had a thing against gingers even back then.
Mary of Scotland was a red head and Liz was not attractive at all. Very vindictive and jealous and vain character . Sly cunning and good at lying too
The red hair was a strong gene in the Tudor family. Due to political expediency and Henry 8 being bat crap crazy, he said he doubted Elizabeth’s paternity. Realistically, he was the only one though. Every contemporary source said that Elizabeth was Henry’s mini me, in looks and personality. Edward and Mary, the “legitimate heirs” took after their mother’s quite a bit, but Elizabeth was all Henry.
@@leiaclark8388 I agree in many ways. I also feel like Elizabeth was more like Henry than Mary and Edward in terms of personality.
When it comes to looks, Mary, Elizabeth and Edward all looked like a mix of both their parents.
Mary had Henry's hair colour, Catherine's facial structure (thank god) and her fair skin and blue eyes came from both her parents.
Elizabeth had Anne's facial structure and eye colour with Henry's hair colour. Elizabeth was actually said to look very very similar to Anne (face). It was her hair, charisma and personality that made her more like Henry.
Edward's face looks like a mix of Henry and Jane. His fair skin, hair and eyes could have come from either of them.
When Mary was a child, her hair colour was lighter like Catherine's, but when she grew older, it became a darker red, like Henry's. Some of her portraits show her with dark brown hair because some paints darken over centuries.
And i also agree with you on the fact that Mary and Edward had more of their mothers' personalities than Henry's, especially Mary. She was basically Catherine's mini me, imo.
Mary Queen of Scots is a different person than Mary I who was Elizabeth’s half sister.
@@ivyrose779 yes. I would like to see a rendering of Mary, queen of Scots. It's said that she was very beautiful. Her death mask shows this as well
VERY impressive! You really captured the charm I read about of Elizabeth I. She is one of my favorites historical figures.
It’s amazing to see them fleshed out. Definitely humanises them more. I think Elizabeth resembles her mother & father when they’ve had the CGI treatment but Anne & Henry look quite alike too so maybe it’s more about the painters style than genetics. Who knows? Brilliant work👌🏻
More of King and Queen of England Please!
Truly amazing. I can’t stop looking at these
That portrait was painted when Elizabeth was about 14, but she may not have been a lion, but she was a lion's cub.
It is a pity she wasn't kinder to animals. She was a big fan of bear baiting.
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Well.... she was a Tudor. They all were bad, hard, mean.
I will forever be a Ricardian.
@@winterweib Yes, perhaps they were. However, I found her particularly vile.
@@susangavaghan as compared to her sister Mary who burned people because they refused Catholicism?
@@susangavaghan They all were back in those time
The portrait of Anne Boleyn used here is inaccurate, because it was painted decades after her death. But you've done a great job here!
There ARE no portraits of Anne from her lifetime that have been authenticated
@@catzkeet4860 There is one at Hever Castle. Her family's estate.
@@catzkeet4860 i know that.
@@laken1804 the Hever portrait was unfortunately not painted in her lifetime
Weren’t there portraits of Anne Boleyn painted later, from original portraits which were eventually destroyed or lost? I think the Hever Castle portrait is one of these
You've done a great job here (who knew a young Henry VIII looked like a hipster?)! I would love to see just every painting ever be brought to life the way you have here. This should be your job and you museums should pay you to create interactive opportunities for visitors to have a conversation with a full-on hologram of people from history.
Think of the research into how they spoke and how their voices might have sounded but bring their language into the 21st century. We could ask what they think about anything, or what they had for breakfast that morning.
I'm getting a real sense that this is how it's going to be in the near future.
The young Henry VIII looks like my deceased husband. 😳
Nothing but love for her,,,my absolute favorite British monarch ever.❤
anne, elizabeth and henry all look so familiar to me woah
finally someone made a video like this one....been waiting a decade for this
Lovely music.....an extremely intelligent, sophisticated woman and monarch. Mighty Queen for her people and herself....respect, to her and your work!!!✨
I can promise you Elizabeth did not look like that in her older years. Due to the years of lead face makeup her skin was so bad it appeared to be melting off along with extreme aging all due to the lead paint. It was said she wore it to be almost an inch thick in later years to hide the damage done. This is what I learned in college don’t come at me please lol
Your absolutely right! I read that also and she had rotten teeth because of all the sugar she ate.
@@skinbynakia2592 yep youre right. She had a very big sweet tooth. Overall she was falling apart lol
There is only one reference to "bad" teeth which is by a visitor to the court who didn't get closer than 30 feet to QEI. We have ONE reference to her having a toothache (and being very worried about having the tooth pulled. There is a story that one of her courtiers offered to have a healthy tooth pulled to show her it was all ok).
Though QEI had access to expensive sugar, it was still VERY VERY expensive to import and so most of the time, it was not served except to impress important visitors. QEI was known to be fairly frugal in her eating habits and tended to dine privately and simply.
In terms of "makeup", there were various kinds. We haven't much in the way of references to what QEI did use. I've looked up a number of inventories we have and not much referring to the items that would be used for "makeup". We have a wealth of information on what clothing, jewellery and other things the Queen had as part of her wardrobe. Its not that she would not have used them but its not as likely she used it as much as we think.
For example, modernly we "assume" she was bald, yet in 1601 when the Earl of Essex came to her rooms when she was dressing, he found her "in her hair" which was white and long. Yes, she wore wigs, but thats due to her wanting to retain a red colour and frankly trying spending hours whilst someone turns your hair into those elaborate coiffures is utterly boring (been there, done that).
Its worth reading Sally Pointer's book "The Artifice of Beauty" which looks at makeup and beauty methods through history - and also recreates some of the (safer) "makeup" through time. I have used some of them which were safer. And Elizabethans knew very well that white lead was *not good* and it wasn't that popular (it was also expensive too).
(College tutors may not have the up to date information and research. I researched health and hygiene in the 16th century for a lecture I gave on the topic a number of years back).
@@myladyswardrobe seems we both went to college for history however I never did anything with the degree lol. She would have had thinning hair but a large hair line anyways being that the large forehead would have been in style so they plucked the hair line.
According to this, Elizabeth I and her mother Anne Boleyn were quite fetching! Henry was kinda handsome himself!
I'm American, but I've always been intrigued with British royalty...especially going back to the Tudors.
The portrait that was shown of Anne Boleyn and any other portraits of Anne weren’t created in her lifetime, when she was still alive. There were portraits but Henry destroyed them all. From historic sources she sounded like a great beauty, had brown hair, a slim appearance and most likely brown eyes. Closed to how Natalie Portman looks, or Natalie Dormer who played her in the tudors with how her features looked during the tudors. Pretty sad how people made up lies about Anne and just later her appearance like example that she had “6 fingers” those accounts are just bias and not reliable.
If you enjoy the Tudor period and the tudors. You should watch the show “The tudors” on lifetime for free, get on insight on Henry in his earlier years, his last years married to Catherine of Aragon and how Anne fell it to the place, and all the other 4 wives and young Elizabeth, Mary, Edward.
Great once again! If requests are possible, and since you are on the English now, I would love to see Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, come to life!
Great suggestion!
shame he cant come back to life and tell parliment to adhere to the bill of rights
Haha the soundtrack from the Stronghold games, great choice and great job here 👏
Fascinating! Perfect musical accompaniment!
You truly bring history to life keep up the good work
Henry 8th was said to be very good looking when he was younger. It was only after he hurt his leg that he started putting on weight. This was very enjoyable. Thanks, Panagiotis! Greetings to you from Australia.
could you do one when henry was younger? m curious to see how good looking people always claimed him to be
Great work. I was also expecting Robert Dudley.😊 Given that he was Elisabeth 's favourite,maybe her one true love.
I'd love to see Robert brought "to life." A few of portraits of him in his prime shows why Elizabeth wanted him at her side. He was striking.
That’s what I was going to suggest!
Oh, I also just requested that too. Also, for that matter George Boleyn and Mary Boleyn, why not? There are some good portraits of George and Lord Robert around on google
My only issue with things like this are that for the most part they probably aren't that accurate. Portraits of monarchs through history have been known to be painted as more beautiful by the artists so who know for sure what they truly looked like. Follow up, the computer smoothed the bumps in Elizabeth and her mother's nose to fit more ideal standards we have now. Not to mention the lack of face cleaners and the literal poison makeup queen Elizabeth was known for.
The Tudors must have been EXTREMELY unattractive if they looked worse than some of this portraits.
This was amazing! Thank you! I love all things from the Tudors.. Seeing them come to life is beyond amazing to me!
She is more beautiful than her mother, not doubt of it.
She got that Plantagenet blood. They were all supposed to be very good looking. Her great grandparents on her fathers side, her grandmother was the most “beautiful woman on the island”. Her GGG was a tall handsome hunk, and her grandmother Elizabeth of York was a renowned beauty herself. Heck, her father was supposed to have been “the handsomest prince in Christendom”. Those Plantagenet genes seem to have been very dominant, as you can read about how good looking they were at least back to Edward I. Even the first Plantagenet, Philip, was called “The Fair” because he was so handsome.
Yes, definitely, I mean, her mother was not exactly beautiful. Although some of Henry's other wives were beauties
I really wish we had a Holbein portrait of Anne Boleyn. He may have painted one.
@@ladybayside7547 I hope they discover one in the future.
@@ladybayside7547 There is a Holbein pencil sketch of Anne still in existence. It’s believed all portraits of Anne were destroyed after her execution.
I thought Anne's eyes were brown, like Elizabeths but they dont look brown until the last pic of Elizabeth which looks fantatic! Thanks for doing these time machine videos where we can meet the people of the past.
I would LOVE to see one of Henry and his six wives, especially to show the change in Henry from when he first wed Catherine to how he ended up at the time of his death. He used to be very fit and handsome.
thanks for answering a question i had in YEARS, really, thank you
Really great as Anne Boleyn is my favourite queen but the weird left eye on Elizabeth freaked me out😂
I think this is amazing!! I love how it brings everyone to life and how real it seems. :) Thank you for creating this. :)
(But, as a side note, I don't imagine Henry VIII's eyes looking quite so innocent as that...)
Love the music from Stronghold😊
This is so fascinating! I’m so happy I found this TH-cam channel💖
You should send this to Channel 5 mate.
Love your work, especially the Romans as Rome is dear to my heart.
I was thinking along the same lines. 👍🏼😄
Then u might b interested in a Roman dig recently.Among other things there was the skeleton of a young slave with his ankles still fettered.Its thought the poor lad either fell ill or couldn't keep up on a forced march.So he was left behind to die alone in a ditch.That saddens me.But then,must admit the Roman period is not one of my favs.
Have become a bit obsessed with the past being brought back to life in this way. I love it. Great channel 👏
Lovely to see them as real people. Though it makes the history all the more sadder😞
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That was amazing! Thank you so very much ☺
Wow, the Tudors were quite the beauties, especially young Elizabeth. Even Henry was quite the chad until he ballooned in weight.
...and started to go amuck.
Elizabeth had the same imposing presence as her father, although in present times he would never stand out. Anne Boleyn looks better in person! This work is amazing!
Would you please, please, please do (the mad) King George and his wife Charlotte?
you are amazing! thank you! You did Afroditi could you also please do Athena? Efharisto
Brilliant, I really loved watching this. The painters were a bit naff in Tudor times.
Apparently young Elizabeth only needed one earring ;) I thought Henry the VIII was a red head? This really is amazing how you do this.. ! Thanks for making these people real.🥰💐🌵🌞🌱🌿🏜️💗🥰💐🌵🌞🌱🌿🏜️💗
Would like to have seen some younger portraits of Henry.
You Have no idea,how much i enjoy this!!!! Thanks a lot...
Interesting and worthwhile video. Elizabeth I had a pocked face from smallpox and her teeth were rotten from sugar consumption. She wore heavy makeup to cover the pox scars.
I would add she had no eyebrows...
@@luciazalan5752 Good point.. Thank you for your interesting comment.
She had smallpox after she became a Queen
@@user-ru1ki Good point. Thank you for your comment.
@@robertschlesinger1342 God bless
Love these . They bring characters a more human touch rather than an artists impression.
Elizabeth reminds me a girl from Liverpool. Old love.
Maybe the girl was my ghost.
Anne Boleyn is the most prettiest woman I've ever seen in my whole life!
Me encanta tu trabajo se observa que lo haces muy bien . Felicitaciones desde Bs. As. ARGENTINA 🤗
So amazing, I really love your channel!!! Please do Edward VI, the rest of Henry VIII’s wives, Henry Fitzroy, Elizabeth of York… more of the Plantagenets!!!!
"The people love you, my lord"
Thank you dear Panagiotis Constantinou for bringing history to life.
Brilliant work.
Seeing all these historical people coming to life is breathtaking.
This time we don't have to have an argument about whether the rendering has a "northern European" bias, since here that's totally appropriate.
What a strange comment. Your not so subtle point is taken, however unnecessary it was to make.
Northern Europeans are made to look like
Northern Europeans .......
Thank you for this! This brought them back to life. Just incredible.
An amazing Queen of England... and a disastrous Queen of Ireland. Also very pretty it must be said.
Thank you for recreating these
Greetings from England
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Greetings from Cyprus ,Incredible work! I'm amazed with your work all the time. Much Respect! 👏
Greetings from Texas. (Ancestors from England.)
Greetings from heaven
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So pretty😍 both Elizabeth and Anne, amazing work , thank you 🤗🤗
If this is accurate, they look much better than their portraits
They always did 🤷🏼♀️
@@amandacazares82 , they didn't wear make up in their portraits, lol
@@coconutmix actually make up was available to the higher classes. Elizabeth I's contained lead and did a lot of damage to her skin.
It actually had more to do with the painting style of the time frame
@@amandacazares82 , Elizabeth's was just making her more pale just like putting white powder on. The make up they had before didn't make them prettier but the computer facial reconstruction does.
@Omniscient_ Turnip , I don't think English kings during the 14th century would marry a full-blooded African. They only take someone with noble blood. Her father was the Duke of Norfolk. She probably had an ancestor from Africa like most people.
Very nice again 😁 Thank you for your excellent works 💗
Stronghold music! Love it
curious why you did not make elizabeth's hair much more red? she and her father were notorious for their red hair. i believe i have seen some reports of it being somewhat strawberry blond in their youth? also a question: does the program you use read the hair at the ears as straight/cut as in a pixie hairstyle? i ask because the women's pictures (except where elizabeth is shown with longer hair) looks very short, where we know that it would be long and pulled back. i do enjoy these transformations and thank you for posting. it really brings history to life!
If John Belushi was an English Monarch
No. More like Paul Blart.
This is fascinating!
It would be amazing to see the faces of Henry's 6 wives, his mother and his grandmothers. The Tudor women are very intriguing but they have so little portraits. (I think Elizabeth of York has a death mask, however.)