Professor Elizabeth Goldring, FSA FRHistS (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) Honorary Professor
My research interests are interdisciplinary, often straddling the boundaries between art, literature, and history. Areas of particular expertise include: Tudor painting; 16th- and 17th- century court culture; England and the Continental Renaissance; portraiture and biography; and the reception of Tudor art and literature from the 17th century to the present. I am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Member of the Burlington Magazine's Consultative Committee, and a Member of the Athenaeum's Works of Art Committee. I regularly contribute long-form pieces on art to The London Review of Books.
My latest book, , was published in November 2025 by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art/Yale Press. It was selected by The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The New Statesman, Country Life, The Tablet, The New World, Church Times, and Engelsberg Ideas as a 'Book of the Year' for 2025. Other recent projects include an exhibition of Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits, Philip Mould & Co., London, 19 November - 19 December 2025), for which I served both as Specialist Consultant Advisor and as co-author of the accompanying catalogue, published in November 2025 by Yale Press in conjunction with Paul Holberton Publishing.
Virtually all of my publications are rooted in new archival or object-based discoveries. My book (PMC/Yale, 2019) won the and was short-listed for three other major awards: the William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History, the and the Other books include (PMC/Yale, 2014), which won the ; and, as General Editor, (Oxford, 2014), which won the , the , and was named a TLS 'Book of the Year'.
I am committed to bringing the past to life for the widest possible audience. I have discussed my research in interviews with The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Country Life, and BBC History Magazine, among other publications; and on radio and television programmes such as Radio 4's 'Today' Programme, Radio 3's , Radio 4's , Times Radio's On This Day in History, Sky Arts's , BBC1's , BBC 4's , and Channel 5's .
Visit or follow me on Instagram @elizabeth.goldring for details of upcoming events relating to my latest book, Holbein: Renaissance Master.
e-mail: e.goldring@warwick.ac.uk
Instagram: @elizabeth.goldring
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