Messages Through Ashmolean Portraits

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/embed/b67a8ff27823dc7688e7

Victoria McGuinness explores the historical contexts and identities communicated by some of the portraits to be found on objects in the Ashmolean Museum's collections, taking a journey from the ancient world of Alexander the Great and his afterlives to Elizabeth I's assertions of royal power and authority.

 

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