Artist Unknown, Field of the Cloth of Gold.
 
Date Description Source Reference
1545 A.D. Foreground. 

Henry's tent palace. This had brick foundations, walls of wood and painted canvas and real glass in the windows. To the right is a bell tent, white/cream on the outside, the roof decorated with a Tudor rose, vines and waves. The flaps are drawn back to show a mid/dark blue lining. 

Middle ground. 

Two-pole pavilion, decorated in red on gold. Two round ends with a narrower section connecting them. To the right are thirteen bell tents, decorated in colour on white and one pavilion. To the far right are a bell tent and pavilion, both with the flaps open. Dozens of small bell tents to the left. 

Background. 

Huge bell tent made from Cloth of Gold, decoration in red, lined with blue with gold fleur-de-lis. There appears to be an awning at the front which is rolled back. It is surrounded by a blue and white vertical striped pavilion which has nine bell tents connected by narrower corridors. To the right are sixteen bell tents, most white with gold detail, two blue and white striped, several other tents are in the far distance.

Artist Unknown, Field of the Cloth of Gold, Royal Collection. Depicts the meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I on 23rd June, 1520. Aston, M., (Ed) The Panorama of the Renaissance, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, p. 83. 

Edge, D., & Paddock, J., Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight, Bison Books, London, 1988, p. 138. 

Starkey, D., (Ed.) Henry VIII A European Court in England, Collins and Brown, London, 1991, Pp. 50-51. 
 


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