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Painted Hall : Sir James Thornhill's Masterpiece at Greenwich by Stephen Paine, Anya Lucas, Sophie Stewart and Richard Johns (2019, Hardcover)

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Published to mark the reopening of the spectacular baroque interior of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich after a landmark conservation project, The Painted Hall is a wonderful celebration of what has been called the Sistine Chapel of the UK. The ceiling and wall decorations of the Painted Hall were conceived and executed by the artist Sir James Thornhill between 1707 and 1726 years that witnessed the Act of Union during the reign of Queen Anne and Great Britains rise to become a dominant Protestant power in a predominantly Catholic Europe. The accessions to the throne of William III and Mary II in 1688 and George I in 1714 form the central narrative of a scheme that also honours Britains maritime successes and mercantile prosperity. The artist drew on a cast of around 200.