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'Unusual even by national standards': Rare Tudor wall paintings found at The Ashes
The wall paintings feature Grotesque-style decorations, including animal heads swirling into clouds, hares trotting, and ...
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See the ‘Fantastical Beasts and Foliage’ Featured in These Rare, Newly Discovered Tudor Wall Paintings
Created in the Grotesque style, the 16th-century images—revealed by renovations at a lodge in England—mimic historic textile ...
Rare Tudor paintings show 'fantastical beasts'
Rare 16th Century wall paintings have been revealed at a former Tudor hunting lodge. The Grotesque-style images were found behind failing plasterwork at The Ashes, in Inglewood Forest, near Ivegill, ...