1. Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe unlocked ROYALPORTRAITS

2. Were her portaits reliable?? She was the first monarch to understand the importance of public relations and she carefully prepared her image for public consumption: portraits were distributed throughout the land and some peolple never had the chance to see her in person.  Idea of ageless Queen  Mask of youth  No smile She wanted to look like a strong regal personality, and ONLY with regards to her ruling stile and personality, they are really spon on

3. How really was the Queen??  Elizabeth was short about 5'3 or 5'5 with brown eyes and red curly hair and freakles  She had a nose hooked in the middle and rather thin lips and prounounced cheek bones  She had a bad temper and would throw things or threaten to send courtiers to the Tower if they upset her.  Elizabeth's teeth were black with tooth decay.  Her speech was sometimes difficult to understand because of missing teeth.  Elizabeth was very superstitious and was afraid of black magic.  She only bathed once every few weeks

4. The ermine portrait 1585 By Nicholas Hilliard

5.  ERMINE whit gold crown: royalty, majesty and purity.  DARK BACKGROND: gravity and authority.

6.  SWORD of state: justice on the first place.  OLIVE BRANCH: biblical sign for peace.

7. The Phoenix portrait 1575 By Nicholas Hilliard

8.  PHOENIX: - eternal nature of kingship -sacrifice and rebirth -Christ’s resurrection and a promise of eternal life -chastity  PEARLS AROUND HER WAIST: purity and virginity

9.  THE CROWN: aureole.  THE FIVE PETALS RED ROSE: - love, beauty, secrecy, christian martyrdom and Virgin Mary - the five wounds of Christ

10. Coronation portrait 1558

11.  HAND ON A GLOBE: power and authority.  LOOSE HAIR: - unmarried state - color strikes to white skin

12. The Pelican portrait 1575 By Nicholas Hilliard

13.  PELICAN: -Christ’s sacrifice to save mankind -like redemption and charity - self sacrifice -mother of protenstant nation

14.  TUDOR ROSE: unity and order.  FLEUR-DE-LYS: dinastic claim to France.

15. The Sieve portrait 1583 By Quentin Metsys

16.  SIEVE: attribute of chastity of the roman vestal virgin Tucia, who after being accused of imputiry, used the sieve to carry water from river Tiber to Vesta’s temple. As not a drop fell, she was able to prove her chastity. Engraved on the sieve: A TERRA IL BEN / MAL DIMORA IN SELLA, that means that the Queen can understand between good and evil.

17.  SHIPS cross West on globe: Powerful nation, conquest of New World. TVTTO VEDO, MULTO MANCHA in inscribed in the globe.  THE FIGURE: It could be her courtier Sir Christopher Hatton, who commissionated the portait.

18. ROUDELS: story of Aeneas and Dido, with the Queen compared to Aeneas: they had faced temptation and now they lead powerful nations.

19. The portrait itself is inscribed: STANCHO RIPOSO & RIPOSATO AFFANNO

20. The Ditchley portrait 1592 By Marcus Gheeraerts

21.  ON HENRY LEE’S LAND IN OXFORDSHIRE: power over Lee. She’s standing on world and the Ditcheley estate.

22.  The prince of light, the Sonne by whom thin(gs) Of heaven the glorie, and of earthe the (grace?) Hath no such glorie as (...) grace to go (... ) Where Correspondencie May have no plac(e) Thunder the Image of that power dev(ine) Which all to nothinge with a word c(... ) Is to the earthe when it doth ayre r(... ) Of power the Scepter, not of wr(... ) This ile of such both grace (... ) power The boundless ocean (...) em(...) P(...) p(rince?) (... ) the (.. )ll (...) Rivers of thankes retourne for Springes (.. ) Rivers of thankes still to that oc(ean) (...) Where grace is grace above, power po(wer)  POEMS: divine power

23.  PEARLS: virginity  JEWELED CELESTIAL SPHERE hang from an ear: command over nature itself  THE EMBROIDERED GOW: : wildflowers to pose the Queen in the guise of Astraea, the virginal heroine of classical literature

24.  THUNDEROUS CLOUDS BEHIND HER, SHE IS BECOMING THE SUNSHINE IN: powerful and triumphant figure with no anxiety

25. The Rainbow portrait 1600 Marcus Gheeraerts

26.  THE EMBROIDERED GOW: : wildflowers to pose the Queen in the guise of Astraea, the virginal heroine of classical literature  PEARLS: virginity  EYES AND EARS ON THE CLOAK: she sees and hears all

27.  JEWELED SERPENT holding a heart-shaped ruby: Queen’s heart captured and controlled by wisdom  JEWELED CELESTIAL SPHERE: costancy  CRESCENT-SHAPED JEWEL: Cynthia, the goddes of the Moon

28.  RAINBOW: peace  NON SINE SOLE IRIS: Queen’s wisdom ensures peace and prosperity