Francis Elaram (after Nicholas Hilliard), Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, Camden's Historie, 1630.
Jamie Reid, Sex Pistols; God Save the Queen (lithograph, detail), ca. 1977.
'The Great Pavement' (The Cosmati Pavement) in front of the High Altar of Westminster Abbey is a unique and remarkable object. The complexity and subtlety of the design and workmanship can be seen nowhere else on this scale. It was laid down in 1268 by order of Henry III who had started re-building Edward the Confessor’s Abbey in the new Gothic style in 1245. The builders came from Rome, with a man called Odoricus at their head. The pavement belongs to a type of inlaid stone decoration known as Cosmati work, after one of the families of craftsmen who specialized in it and the technique is called opus sectile, ‘cut work’. This differs from ancient Roman and earlier medieval mosaic work which consists of square stones of equal size. It is also abstract in design.
Source: westminster-abbey.org
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Tai-Ti, Queen of Amenhotep III; The Pharaohs and Their People: Scenes of Old Egyptian Life and People. E. Berkley London: Seeley, Jackson ; Halliday (1884)
Boudica (pron.: /ˈbuːdɨkə/; alternative spelling: Boudicca), also known as Boadicea /boʊdɨˈsiːə/ and known in Welsh as Buddug [ˈbɨ̞ðɨ̞ɡ][1] (d. AD 60 or 61) was queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
Freddie Mercury with his cats Oscar and Tiffany.
Nina Simone. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstand. 1964
Irma Thomas. I Need Your Love So Bad.