Advances in the quality and availability of high-resolution imagery, infrared photography and x-ray analysis, as well greater accessibility to manuscript material now allows us to know more about Tudor and Jacobean portraiture than ever before.
With modern technology at our fingertips, increasingly we are able to compare a far greater range of works of art and study the ways they were produced, shedding further light on areas such as attribution, subject identification, and circles of patronage.
The exhibition catalogue for Love’s Labour’s Found showcases a selection of paintings and portrait miniatures which have benefited from these advances.