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History at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 7: Images of an age what can we learn from portraits 1500-1750?

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Out-of-school learning

Pupils could contact museum and art gallery curators and ask them how they select and organise their interpretations of the past.


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1. Why do powerful people take great care about the way they are shown in pictures?
2. How did Elizabeth I want herself to be portrayed?
3. Getting the message?
4. Images of an age: who was powerful?
5. What don't portraits tell us?
6. What were the most important images of the age?