A conversation about Tudor architecture with Simon Thurley

Hear a presentation by historian and archeologist Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudor period. This presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q+A facilitated by Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
About the speakers
Thomas P. Campbell, a distinguished art historian in the field of renaissance and baroque art, has served for over a decade as director and CEO of two major US art museums - the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2009 through 2017 and, since 2018, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. At the Met, Campbell led a revitalization and modernization program embodied in award-winning exhibitions and publications, major capital projects, investment in technology and digital initiatives, and historic donations of works of art. Since joining the Fine Arts Museums, Campbell has worked together with staff and board members to strengthen the institution’s ties to local communities through an ongoing Free Saturdays program, key acquisitions and partnerships, and the de Young Open exhibition.
Simon Thurley is a leading historian with a primary interest in English architecture. In 2013, he published his history of English architecture “The Building of England,” and he is now working on its second edition to bring it up to date and to add two new chapters continuing the story up to 2020. Most recently he has completed a two-volume project to tell the story of royal building, patronage, and social life at the courts of the Tudors and Stuarts: “Houses of Power” (2017) and “Palaces of Revolution” (2021). The accompanying website is www.royalpalaces.com/. He has also written widely on the protection and interpretation of historic sites including in “Men from the Ministry” (2013), which, for the first time, tells the story of the invention of modern heritage in England.
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[@davidleach4302]

Simon Thurley is the best lecturer I have ever heard, bar none. I've watched all of his Gresham lectures, and finding this one was a real treat. Still hope to hear him in person one day.

[@graphiquejack]

Anne Boleyn was an important influence on Tudor style, as the presenter mentions. Henry VII built Richmond and a few other places, like a chapel within Westminster Abbey, but he was fairly frugal and didn’t go over the top with spending. Henry VIII was a spendthrift definitely, but his early reign was mainly spending money on wars. Anne and the annulment of his first marriage focused his energy more in England, and he acquired Hampton Court and York Place (renamed Whitehall) with the fall of Cardinal Wolsey and Henry and Anne were very involved in their redesign and expansion. Anne was actually better travelled than Henry. He only ever travelled within England and in France. Anne was brought up in the courts in the Low Countries, then in France and if you go to places where she stayed at, you can see those architectural influences in what she and Henry were building in England. So yes, the early Tudor style, which was when the majority of the building in the Tudor era was, would have been an eclectic melange of styles from continental Europe and England., thanks in large part to Anne.
The presenter mentions four things the Tudors valued in terms of items they acquired… I would also add another one… self promotion. The Tudors were obsessed with placing their initials, symbols, badges, coats of arms, emblems, mottos everywhere, from the walls, the windows, the paintings, the clothing and even their jewellery. They wanted everyone to know who owned what, who their ruler was, and present a calculated image of splendor, power and magesty to their people, and abroad.

[@CarolynSalafia]

Not Shakespeare, perhaps. "The romantic name for the dynastic conflicts which troubled 15th-century England, the 'Wars of the Roses', was first coined by the novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)"

[@buxton9991]

Who is the royal person that Thomas Campbell and Simon Thurley acknowledge in the audience??

[@graphiquejack]

I think they were just attendees in Tudor costume. You see a small group enter in period clothes at the very beginning

[@ageofechochambers9469]

#17:53 this person has numerous mistakes not only in this video but others as well.
The richest aristocrats were not earning just £2000 a year , duke of Norfolk alone was earning above £4,000 a year a few other earls were earning above 2000 .

[@alessandracasini2588]

That is so rude

[@maikmost8589]

you mean how he skipped over Mary Tudor?